Crime Statistics for Bank Top, Stoke-on-Trent, Stoke-on-Trent, City of Stoke-on-Trent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bank Top in September 2024. There were a total of 403 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bank Top, 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	150
Public Order	52
Shoplifting	45
Criminal Damage Arson	40
Anti Social Behaviour	38
Other Theft	19
Burglary	13
Other Crime	11
Vehicle Crime	11
Possession Of Weapons	7
Robbery	6
Bicycle Theft	5
Drugs	3
Theft From The Person	3
All Crime	403

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Bank Top. 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 Bank Top

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Great Chell (0.62 miles)	612
Chell Heath (0.62 miles)	519
Little Chell (0.62 miles)	518
Burslem (1.24 miles)	407
Bank Top	403
Tunstall (0.62 miles)	366
Ford Green (0.88 miles)	328
Pitts Hill (0.88 miles)	321
Norton-in-the-Moors (1.24 miles)	229
Fegg Hayes (1.24 miles)	171

Where are the most violent places near Bank Top?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Great Chell	228
Little Chell	204
Chell Heath	194
Ford Green	151
Bank Top	150
Burslem	144
Tunstall	122
Pitts Hill	107
Norton-in-the-Moors	105
Fegg Hayes	61

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

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 Bank Top 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 Bank Top compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bank Top and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bank Top is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Burslem Central	93
2	Moorcroft	90
3	Tunstall	88
4	Little Chell and Stanfield	80
5	Burslem Park	79
6	Ford Green and Smallthorne	77
7	Great Chell and Packmoor	65
8	Bradeley and Chell Heath	60
9	Sneyd Green	59
10	Wolstanton	51
11	Bradwell	38

Which road in Bank Top has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Bank Top with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Little Chell Lane.