Total Crime Rate
250.8 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
178.2 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Pembridge Road area has the 7th highest crime rate of 68 local areas in Blurton , and the 106th highest crime rate of 841 local areas in Stoke-on-Trent .
This postcode sits in a local crime hotspot. Overall crime levels here are significantly higher than in the surrounding streets and the wider area.
The overall crime rate in the area around Pembridge Road (ST3 3BU) in the last 12 months was 250.8 per 1,000 residents and was 103.6% higher than the Blurton average (123.2 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 48 offences recorded. The least common crime was Criminal damage and arson with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Burglary ( 150.0% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2025.
Violent crimes totalled 54 (≈ 178.2 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 31.7% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has rising ( 12.8% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Pembridge Road (ST3 3BU), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Finstock Avenue, where police recorded 47 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Rothley Green (21 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Stoke-On-Trent| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Shirebrook Close | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Ingestre Square | — |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Pembridge Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Pembridge Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Barracks Close | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Garsdale Crescent | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Garsdale Crescent | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Garsdale Crescent | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Garsdale Crescent | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Rothley Green | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Ripon Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Penton Place | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Ripon Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Ripon Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Ripon Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Ripon Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Ripon Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Ellerby Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Horsley Grove | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Horsley Grove | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Pond Mill Way | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Penton Place | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Pembridge Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Fallow Field | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Netley Place | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Urmston Place | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Urmston Place | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Fallow Field | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Finstock Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Finstock Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
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