Total Crime Rate

186.5 per 1,000 9/10 · Very High

All offences · Oct 2024 - Sep 2025
Latest update: 05.12.2025 Crime figures are sourced from data.police.uk and are typically published with a 3-month delay.
Crime rate per 1000 residents
  • All crimes 186.5 9/10
  • Violence and sexual offences 48.2 8/10
  • Other theft 32.2 10/10
  • Criminal damage and arson 19.3 9/10
  • Anti-social behaviour 16.1 7/10
  • Public order 16.1 9/10
  • Vehicle crime 12.9 9/10
  • Burglary 9.7 8/10
  • Other crime 9.7 9/10
  • Possession of weapons 9.7 10/10
  • Shoplifting 6.4 4/10
  • Drugs 3.2 3/10
  • Robbery 3.2 4/10
  • Bicycle theft 0.0 1/10
  • Theft from the person 0.0 1/10
Values shown per 1,000 residents · Oct 2024 - Sep 2025 · Rating compares this oa to UK peers of the same type.
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Crime overview

Commercial Street area has the 18th highest crime rate of 50 local areas in Burslem , and the 162nd highest crime rate of 844 local areas in Stoke-on-Trent .

The streets immediately around this postcode mostly have high or very high crime levels, and on average the bordering areas are much more affected by crime than this postcode itself.

The overall crime rate in the area around Commercial Street (ST6 3DB) in the last 12 months was 186.5 per 1,000 residents and was 14.7% lower than the Burslem average (218.7 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 15 offences recorded. The least common crime was Drugs with 1 case , unchanged from 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Other crime ( 200.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Burglary ( -66.7% YoY).

Violent crimes totalled 24 (≈ 77.2 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -44.2% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -32.7% comparing early vs recent averages) .

In the area around Commercial Street (ST6 3DB), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Pitt Street East, where police recorded 39 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Pleasant Street (14 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.

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Crime Over Time in Commercial Street area

MonthCrimeLocation*Last Outcome
Sep 2025Robbery Holecroft Street Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Hobson Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Moorcroft Close Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Nile Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Wulstan Road Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Criminal damage and arson Hobson Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Public order Hobson Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Hobson Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Leonora Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Warburton Street Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Wulstan Road Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Other theft Wulstan Road Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Davison Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Public order Walley Street Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Davison Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Anti-social behaviour Bettany Road
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Macintyre Street Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Vehicle crime Camoys Road Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Lincoln Road Under investigation
Sep 2025Criminal damage and arson Cotterill Grove Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Barnfield Road Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Shoplifting Pitt Street East Under investigation
Sep 2025Shoplifting Pitt Street East Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Anti-social behaviour Emerson Road
Sep 2025Burglary Cotterill Grove Under investigation
Sep 2025Criminal damage and arson Cotterill Grove Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Cotterill Grove Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Emerson Road Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Cotterill Grove Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Cotterill Grove Under investigation

Data Sources

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