Crime Statistics for Hednesford, Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hednesford in August 2024. There were a total of 132 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 Hednesford, 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	57
Anti Social Behaviour	25
Criminal Damage Arson	14
Shoplifting	8
Vehicle Crime	8
Other Theft	7
Public Order	5
Drugs	4
Other Crime	2
Theft From The Person	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	132

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Hednesford. 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 Hednesford

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Oldfallow (1.96 miles)	313
Cannock (1.75 miles)	259
Blackfords (1.39 miles)	229
Rumer Hill (2.24 miles)	219
Green Heath (0.88 miles)	143
Hednesford	132
Church Hill	132
Heath Hayes (1.39 miles)	64
Rawnsley (1.24 miles)	27
Cannock Wood (2.48 miles)	10

Where are the most violent places near Hednesford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Oldfallow	131
Cannock	92
Blackfords	89
Rumer Hill	74
Green Heath	71
Church Hill	65
Hednesford	57
Heath Hayes	28
Rawnsley	15
Cannock Wood	6

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

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 Hednesford 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 Hednesford compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hednesford and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hednesford is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Hednesford North	59
2	Cannock South	56
3	Cannock East	55
4	Cannock North	50
5	Cannock West	46
6	Etching Hill and The Heath	38
7	Heath Hayes East and Wimblebury	31
8	Hednesford South	30
9	Hednesford Green Heath	25
10	Rawnsley	22
11	Hawks Green	19

Which road in Hednesford has the highest level of crime?

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