Crime Statistics for Rawnsley, Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Rawnsley in August 2024. There were a total of 27 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 Rawnsley, 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	15
Anti Social Behaviour	6
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Drugs	1
Public Order	1
Other Theft	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	27

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 Rawnsley. 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 Rawnsley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Chase Terrace (2.24 miles)	167
Green Heath (1.96 miles)	143
Hednesford (1.24 miles)	132
Church Hill (1.24 miles)	132
Heath Hayes (1.39 miles)	64
Cold Well (1.96 miles)	42
Gentleshaw (1.96 miles)	42
Rawnsley	27
Cannock Wood (1.24 miles)	10
Chestall (1.86 miles)	7

Where are the most violent places near Rawnsley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Green Heath	71
Church Hill	65
Hednesford	57
Chase Terrace	56
Heath Hayes	28
Cold Well	21
Gentleshaw	21
Rawnsley	15
Cannock Wood	6
Chestall	4

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

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 Rawnsley 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 Rawnsley compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Hednesford North	59
2	Cannock East	55
3	Chasetown	55
4	Cannock North	50
5	Norton Canes	49
6	Heath Hayes East and Wimblebury	31
7	Hednesford South	30
8	Hednesford Green Heath	25
9	Chase Terrace	24
10	Rawnsley	22
11	Hawks Green	19

Which road in Rawnsley has the highest level of crime?

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