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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Longport in October 2024. There were a total of 222 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 Longport, 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	91
Anti Social Behaviour	31
Public Order	21
Criminal Damage Arson	19
Shoplifting	18
Vehicle Crime	9
Burglary	9
Other Theft	9
Other Crime	7
Robbery	3
Drugs	3
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	222

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 Longport. 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 Longport

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Cobridge (1.39 miles)	876
May Bank (1.24 miles)	502
Burslem (1.24 miles)	359
Beasley (1.24 miles)	278
Etruria (1.39 miles)	265
Longport	222
Longbridge Hayes (0.62 miles)	210
Porthill (0.62 miles)	198
Chesterton (1.24 miles)	158
Broad Meadow (1.39 miles)	98

Where are the most violent places near Longport?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Cobridge	329
May Bank	213
Beasley	138
Burslem	118
Etruria	98
Longport	91
Longbridge Hayes	84
Porthill	76
Chesterton	76
Broad Meadow	69

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

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 Longport 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 Longport compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Longport and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Longport is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Burslem Central	93
2	Moorcroft	90
3	Tunstall	88
4	Little Chell and Stanfield	80
5	Burslem Park	79
6	Cross Heath	72
7	Knutton	62
8	Holditch & Chesterton	55
9	Wolstanton	51
10	May Bank	46
11	Bradwell	38

Which road in Longport has the highest level of crime?

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