Crime Rates at Orme Road, Newcastle, ST5 2ND

Orme Road area has the 30th lowest crime rate of 63 local areas in Cross Heath , and the 105th highest crime rate of 417 local areas in Newcastle-under-Lyme .

Neighbouring streets tend to have noticeably higher crime levels than this postcode. Crime here is lower than the average for the surrounding output areas.

The overall crime rate in the area around Orme Road (ST5 2ND) in the last 12 months was 93.2 per 1,000 residents and was 0.5% lower than the Cross Heath average (93.7 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 13 offences recorded. The least common crime was Other crime with 1 case , unchanged from 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Violence and sexual offences ( 333.3% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2024.

Violent crimes totalled 16 (≈ 57.3 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 220.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has rising ( 26.7% comparing early vs recent averages) .

In the area around Orme Road (ST5 2ND), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Pool Side, where police recorded 26 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Dunkirk Court (17 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.