Crime Statistics for Harriseahead, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Harriseahead in October 2024. There were a total of 36 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 Harriseahead, 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	19
Anti Social Behaviour	7
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Vehicle Crime	4
Public Order	1
All Crime	36

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 Harriseahead. 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 Harriseahead

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Biddulph (1.39 miles)	98
Packmoor (1.24 miles)	96
Newchapel (1.24 miles)	96
Dales Green (0.62 miles)	65
Knypersley (1.24 miles)	61
Harriseahead	36
Stadmorslow (0.62 miles)	35
Newpool (0.62 miles)	28
Brown Lees (0.62 miles)	28
The Bank (1.39 miles)	7

Where are the most violent places near Harriseahead?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Biddulph	45
Packmoor	34
Newchapel	34
Knypersley	33
Dales Green	28
Harriseahead	19
Newpool	12
Brown Lees	12
Stadmorslow	10
The Bank	3

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

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 Harriseahead 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 Harriseahead compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Tunstall	88
2	Goldenhill and Sandyford	83
3	Little Chell and Stanfield	80
4	Great Chell and Packmoor	65
5	Bradeley and Chell Heath	60
6	Biddulph East	56
7	Talke & Butt Lane	51
8	Kidsgrove & Ravenscliffe	46
9	Biddulph West	45
10	Newchapel & Mow Cop	36
11	Biddulph North	5

Which road in Harriseahead has the highest level of crime?

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