Vehicle crime by area
Car crime in Newcastle-under-Lyme
Newcastle-under-Lyme (shire district) averaged 358 police-recorded vehicle offences a year in 2024/25 and 2025/26, against 61,647 privately kept licensed cars: a rate of 5.8 per 1,000 cars, 0.48× the England and Wales rate of 12.1. It ranks 219 of 316 local authorities (1 is highest).
Data to 2026-03-31 · Page updated 2026-09-28 · Publisher: 73 Auto
- Offences per 1,000 cars
- 5.8
- 358 offences a year, 2024/25 and 2025/26
- vs England & Wales
- 0.48×
- national rate 12.1
- Rank
- 219 of 316
- 101 of 164 shire districts
How Newcastle-under-Lyme compares
Official data. Newcastle-under-Lyme's rate is 26% below the median local authority (7.8), which puts it in the middle half of the 316 areas.
Among the 164 shire districts, it is 8% below the middle one (6.3) and ranks 101: in the middle half of its type.
| Comparison | Per 1,000 cars | Newcastle-under-Lyme vs it |
|---|---|---|
| Newcastle-under-Lyme | 5.8 | — |
| England and Wales (all offences ÷ all cars) | 12.1 | 0.48× |
| Median of 316 areas | 7.8 | 0.74× |
| All shire districts pooled | 7.1 | 0.82× |
| Median of shire districts | 6.3 | 0.92× |
Areas ranked either side
| Rank | Area | Type | Per 1,000 cars |
|---|---|---|---|
| 216 | Wyre | shire district | 5.9 |
| 217 | Chorley | shire district | 5.9 |
| 218 | Havant | shire district | 5.8 |
| 219 | Newcastle-under-Lyme | shire district | 5.8 |
| 220 | Boston | shire district | 5.8 |
| 221 | South Kesteven | shire district | 5.7 |
| 222 | Test Valley | shire district | 5.7 |
How the 73 Auto insurance estimate treats Newcastle-under-Lyme
73 Auto estimate, not a quote. Newcastle-under-Lyme's vehicle-crime index is 0.48 (its rate ÷ the national rate). The model floors the index at 0.5, so it treats Newcastle-under-Lyme like any other area at half the national rate or less. The collision part of the premium is multiplied by 0.52 (index^0.94) and the theft part by 0.50 (index^1).
Against the UK-average area (index 0.92), that makes the estimate for the reference driver (age 48, clean record, group 20 car) about 38% lower. The estimate uses your postcode district's index, listed below, not the authority figure directly. The area weighting was fitted to 7 published area premiums (leave-one-out error 13% against 19% with no area effect). See how 73 Auto estimates insurance.
Postcode districts mapped to Newcastle-under-Lyme
Districts where most privately kept cars are in Newcastle-under-Lyme. A district's index is the car-weighted average of the authorities it covers, so the 2 that cross into a neighbouring authority differ from Newcastle-under-Lyme's 0.48. The last column is the 73 Auto estimate relativity for the reference driver.
| District | Cars | Index | Estimate vs UK-average area |
|---|---|---|---|
| CW3 | 5,815 | 0.38 | 0.62× |
| ST5 | 38,439 | 0.48 | 0.62× |
| ST7 | 30,762 | 0.41 | 0.62× |
| ST55 | 85 | 0.48 | 0.62× |
Limitations
Police-recorded crime only: unreported offences are missing, and recording practice varies between forces.
The rate is per car registered to a keeper in Newcastle-under-Lyme, not per car on its streets. Where many commuters or visitors park, offences against their cars count here while the cars count elsewhere, which pushes the rate up.
Offences a police force did not assign to an area are shared across its areas by car numbers. Scotland and Northern Ireland are not covered.
Estimate insurance for a car kept in Newcastle-under-Lyme
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Where these figures come from
- Official data: Police recorded crime by Community Safety Partnership, year ending March 2025 and March 2026 — Home Office. Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Official data: Licensed vehicles by small area (VEH0125), privately kept cars, 2026 Q2 — Department for Transport. Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Official data: Postcode to LSOA to local authority lookup (August 2026) — Office for National Statistics (Open Geography Portal). Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data (c) Crown copyright and database right; contains Royal Mail data (c) Royal Mail copyright and database right; contains National Statistics data (c) Crown copyright and database right.
- 73 Auto analysis: area index and insurance relativities from the Insurance V2 model (insurance-v2.0) — 73 Auto. Our own calculation from the sources above.
Figures labelled as 73 Auto estimates are our own analysis of these sources, set out in the methodology and data sources. To report a factual error, see corrections.