Crime Statistics for Longport, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, 2025

Is Longport rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 253 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

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	113
Shoplifting	30
Anti Social Behaviour	25
Vehicle Crime	25
Criminal Damage Arson	14
Other Theft	10
Public Order	9
Drugs	8
Other Crime	7
Possession Of Weapons	6
Burglary	4
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	253

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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)	448
May Bank (1.24 miles)	292
Etruria (1.39 miles)	266
Burslem (1.24 miles)	264
Porthill (0.62 miles)	248
Longport	237
Beasley (1.24 miles)	218
Longbridge Hayes (0.62 miles)	181
Chesterton (1.24 miles)	107
Broad Meadow (1.39 miles)	94

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	144
Porthill	130
Longport	113
May Bank	108
Longbridge Hayes	102
Beasley	98
Etruria	96
Burslem	91
Chesterton	68
Broad Meadow	53

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 Liverpool Road.