Crime Statistics for Poolfold, Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Poolfold in August 2024. There were a total of 49 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 Poolfold, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime25
Anti Social Behaviour7
Public Order6
Criminal Damage Arson3
Other Crime3
Drugs2
Shoplifting2
Burglary1
All Crime49

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 Poolfold. 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 Poolfold

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Biddulph (1.39 miles)123
Gillow Heath (0.88 miles)90
Knypersley (1.96 miles)61
Biddulph Moor (0.88 miles)58
Marsh Green (0.62 miles)51
Poolfold49
Crowborough (1.39 miles)49
Dane in Shaw (1.75 miles)6
Congleton Edge (1.39 miles)0
Mossley (1.75 miles)0

2.19%
of Biddulph North residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Poolfold?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Gillow Heath49
Biddulph41
Knypersley34
Poolfold25
Marsh Green24
Biddulph Moor19
Crowborough18
Dane in Shaw3
Congleton Edge0
Mossley0

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

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 Poolfold 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 Poolfold compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Biddulph East56
2Biddulph West45
3Congleton East42
4Congleton West41
5Newchapel & Mow Cop36
6Gawsworth33
7Odd Rode30
8Biddulph South20
9Horton10
10Biddulph Moor7
11Biddulph North5

Which road in Poolfold has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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