Crime Statistics for Heath Hayes, Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Heath Hayes 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 Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Heath Hayes, 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	21
Public Order	7
Anti Social Behaviour	6
Other Theft	5
Vehicle Crime	3
Other Crime	3
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Burglary	2
Drugs	2
Shoplifting	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 Heath Hayes. 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 Heath Hayes

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Blackfords (1.96 miles)	268
Church Hill (1.39 miles)	261
Cannock	251
Rumer Hill (1.96 miles)	201
Chase Terrace (1.96 miles)	181
Hednesford (1.39 miles)	163
Norton East (1.39 miles)	65
Heath Hayes	52
Rawnsley (1.39 miles)	37
Norton Canes (1.86 miles)	26

Where are the most violent places near Heath Hayes?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Church Hill	158
Blackfords	105
Chase Terrace	96
Cannock	95
Hednesford	89
Rumer Hill	65
Norton East	32
Heath Hayes	21
Rawnsley	18
Norton Canes	8

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

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 Heath Hayes 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 Heath Hayes compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Cannock South	56
2	Cannock East	55
3	Norton Canes	49
4	Cannock West	46
5	Great Wyrley Town	37
6	Heath Hayes East and Wimblebury	31
7	Hednesford South	30
8	Hednesford Green Heath	25
9	Chase Terrace	24
10	Rawnsley	22
11	Hawks Green	19

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

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