Crime Statistics for Hardings Wood, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hardings Wood in October 2024. There were a total of 223 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 Hardings Wood, 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	78
Shoplifting	42
Anti Social Behaviour	28
Criminal Damage Arson	18
Other Theft	16
Vehicle Crime	11
Burglary	10
Public Order	10
Bicycle Theft	4
Robbery	2
Drugs	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	223

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 Hardings Wood. 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 Hardings Wood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hardings Wood	218
Acres Nook (0.88 miles)	119
Kidsgrove	118
Clough Hall (0.62 miles)	82
Red Bull (0.62 miles)	79
Butt Lane (0.62 miles)	65
Hollins (0.88 miles)	54
Talke (0.88 miles)	54
Coalpit Hill (0.88 miles)	54
Hall Green (1.24 miles)	25

Where are the most violent places near Hardings Wood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hardings Wood	78
Acres Nook	52
Kidsgrove	43
Clough Hall	31
Red Bull	26
Hollins	21
Talke	21
Coalpit Hill	21
Butt Lane	20
Hall Green	6

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

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 Hardings Wood 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 Hardings Wood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hardings Wood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hardings Wood is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Tunstall	88
2	Goldenhill and Sandyford	83
3	Little Chell and Stanfield	80
4	Great Chell and Packmoor	65
5	Holditch & Chesterton	55
6	Talke & Butt Lane	51
7	Crackley & Red Street	48
8	Kidsgrove & Ravenscliffe	46
9	Biddulph West	45
10	Newchapel & Mow Cop	36
11	Alsager	21

Which road in Hardings Wood has the highest level of crime?

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