Ball Green is a residential district in the northern part of Stoke-on-Trent, situated between Norton and the area around Chatterley Whitfield, on rising ground leading towards the edge of the Staffordshire Moorlands. 

The area developed from a mix of agricultural land and scattered rural settlement into a more defined community during the 19th and 20th centuries, shaped by the expansion of nearby coal mining and the wider growth of the Potteries. 

Its development was closely linked to the industrial landscape of the northern coalfield, including the influence of major sites such as Chatterley Whitfield Colliery. 

Today, Ball Green is primarily residential in character, but it still reflects its position on the transitional edge between the urban Potteries and the more open countryside beyond.