Crime Statistics for Laney Green, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Laney Green in August 2024. There were a total of 16 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Crime Category	Incidents
Vehicle Crime	4
Shoplifting	3
Other Theft	2
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Public Order	2
Burglary	2
Violent Crime	1
All Crime	16

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 Laney Green. 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 Laney Green

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bridgtown (1.75 miles)	116
Littlewood (1.39 miles)	103
Featherstone (1.39 miles)	44
Cheslyn Hay (0.88 miles)	40
Shareshill (1.24 miles)	28
Springhill (1.39 miles)	23
Laney Green	16
Warstone (0.88 miles)	8
Great Saredon (1.39 miles)	5
Little Saredon (1.39 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Laney Green?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bridgtown	52
Littlewood	36
Cheslyn Hay	29
Featherstone	22
Shareshill	12
Springhill	7
Laney Green	1
Great Saredon	1
Warstone	0
Little Saredon	0

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

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 Laney Green 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 Laney Green compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Essington	65
2	Willenhall North	58
3	Cannock South	56
4	Cannock East	55
5	Huntington and Hatherton	49
6	Featherstone and Shareshill	46
7	Wednesfield North	43
8	Great Wyrley Landywood	39
9	Great Wyrley Town	37
10	Cheslyn Hay North and Saredon	33
11	Cheslyn Hay South	19

Which road in Laney Green has the highest level of crime?

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