Birches Head & Northwood
WardNorth Stoke-on-Trent. About 10,707 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 2.9 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 11% of people in Birches Head & Northwood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Birches Head & Northwood compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Birches Head & Northwood safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Birches Head & Northwood at a rate of 144.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 138.7 per 1,000 people across Stoke-on-Trent.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 144 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Birches Head & Northwood.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (601), anti-social behaviour (448) and other crime (349).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Stoke-on-Trent
These figures are published for the whole of Stoke-on-Trent, not for each ward, so they describe all of Stoke-on-Trent and not Birches Head & Northwood alone. See Stoke-on-Trent
Birches Head & Northwood in brief
Birches Head & Northwood had 10,367 usual residents at the census.
About 11% of people in Birches Head & Northwood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Birches Head & Northwood, 97.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Birches Head & Northwood, 6.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.