Crime Statistics for Stonefield, Stafford, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Stonefield in August 2024. There were a total of 158 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 Stonefield, 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	50
Anti Social Behaviour	39
Criminal Damage Arson	18
Shoplifting	14
Public Order	14
Other Theft	10
Robbery	4
Bicycle Theft	2
Drugs	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Vehicle Crime	1
Theft From The Person	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	158

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 Stonefield. 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 Stonefield

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Stonefield	142
Walton (0.62 miles)	118
Stone (0.62 miles)	110
Little Stoke (1.75 miles)	42
Barlaston (2.49 miles)	12
Meaford (0.88 miles)	12
Swynnerton (2.56 miles)	8
Moddershall (2.24 miles)	8
Aston-By-Stone (2.24 miles)	5
Knenhall (2.63 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Stonefield?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Stonefield	50
Walton	46
Stone	38
Little Stoke	18
Moddershall	6
Meaford	4
Barlaston	3
Swynnerton	2
Aston-By-Stone	1
Knenhall	1

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

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 Stonefield 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 Stonefield compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Dresden and Florence	80
2	Meir South	74
3	Blurton West and Newstead	73
4	Barlaston	32
5	Walton	26
6	Fulford	24
7	Hanford and Trentham	23
8	Swynnerton & Oulton	21
9	Eccleshall	20
10	St Michael's & Stonefield	19
11	Milwich	11

Which road in Stonefield has the highest level of crime?

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