Crime Statistics for Cross Heath, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cross Heath in October 2024. There were a total of 489 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Cross Heath, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	146
Anti Social Behaviour	74
Shoplifting	70
Criminal Damage Arson	52
Public Order	44
Other Theft	29
Drugs	20
Burglary	14
Possession Of Weapons	12
Vehicle Crime	10
Bicycle Theft	8
Robbery	4
Theft From The Person	4
Other Crime	2
All Crime	489

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Cross Heath. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Cross Heath

We've taken the ten nearest places to Cross Heath and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Cross Heath has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Basford (0.88 miles)	571
May Bank (0.62 miles)	502
Cross Heath	456
Newcastle-under-Lyme (0.88 miles)	315
Beasley (1.39 miles)	278
The Brampton (0.62 miles)	275
Etruria (1.24 miles)	265
Porthill (0.88 miles)	198
Knutton (0.62 miles)	127
Broad Meadow (0.88 miles)	98

Where are the most violent places near Cross Heath?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Cross Heath and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Basford	215
May Bank	213
Cross Heath	146
Beasley	138
Newcastle-under-Lyme	116
The Brampton	99
Etruria	98
Porthill	76
Broad Meadow	69
Knutton	52

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Cross Heath?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Cross Heath to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Cross Heath compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cross Heath and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Cross Heath is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Moorcroft	90
2	Cross Heath	72
3	Town	69
4	Silverdale	68
5	Knutton	62
6	Holditch & Chesterton	55
7	Wolstanton	51
8	May Bank	46
9	Thistleberry	40
10	Bradwell	38
11	Westlands	38

Which road in Cross Heath has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Cross Heath with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.