Crime Statistics for Giggetty, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Giggetty in October 2024. There were a total of 52 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Giggetty, 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	27
Shoplifting	4
Vehicle Crime	4
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Burglary	4
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Other Crime	2
Public Order	1
Drugs	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	52

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 Giggetty. 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 Giggetty

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

Location	Crime Incidents
The Bratch (0.62 miles)	66
Spring Hill (2.24 miles)	53
Giggetty	52
Blakeley	52
Wall Heath (1.96 miles)	31
Lower Penn (1.96 miles)	18
Gospel End Village (1.96 miles)	11
Trysull (1.39 miles)	10
Stour (2.02 miles)	4
Gospel Ash (1.96 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Giggetty?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
The Bratch	40
Spring Hill	30
Giggetty	27
Blakeley	27
Lower Penn	13
Trysull	12
Wall Heath	11
Gospel End Village	4
Stour	0
Gospel Ash	0

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

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 Giggetty 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 Giggetty compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Giggetty and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Giggetty have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Himley and Swindon.

#	Ward	Score
1	Himley and Swindon	64
2	Trysull and Seisdon	51
3	Gornal	40
4	Wombourne North and Lower Penn	29
5	Wordsley	26
6	Merry Hill	25
7	Penn	22
8	Kingswinford North and Wall Heath	21
9	Kingswinford South	20
10	Wombourne South East	18
11	Wombourne South West	18

Which road in Giggetty has the highest level of crime?

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