Longton & Meir Hay South
WardSouth east Stoke-on-Trent. About 5,473 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 2.1 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 19% of people in Longton & Meir Hay South live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Longton & Meir Hay South compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Longton & Meir Hay South safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Longton & Meir Hay South at a rate of 269.5 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, 150 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Longton & Meir Hay South.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (491), other crime (407) and anti-social behaviour (299).
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 Longton & Meir Hay South alone. See Stoke-on-Trent
Longton & Meir Hay South in brief
Longton & Meir Hay South had 5,439 usual residents at the census.
About 19% of people in Longton & Meir Hay South live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Longton & Meir Hay South, 91.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Longton & Meir Hay South, 6.0% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.