Crime Statistics for Aston, Birmingham, Birmingham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Aston in September 2024. There were a total of 459 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Aston, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	184
Vehicle Crime	51
Anti Social Behaviour	39
Other Theft	33
Criminal Damage Arson	31
Public Order	27
Drugs	20
Burglary	17
Shoplifting	17
Possession Of Weapons	12
Robbery	12
Other Crime	11
Bicycle Theft	3
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	459

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Aston. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Aston

We've taken the ten nearest places to Aston and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Aston has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Netchells Green (1.24 miles)	1658
Saltley (1.39 miles)	728
Birmingham (1.39 miles)	728
Rea (1.24 miles)	700
Birchfield (0.88 miles)	633
Stockland Green (1.39 miles)	467
Aston	459
Washwood Heath (1.39 miles)	440
Gravelly Hill (1.39 miles)	363
Nechells (0.62 miles)	333

Where are the most violent places near Aston?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Aston and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Netchells Green	489
Rea	331
Birchfield	291
Saltley	259
Birmingham	259
Washwood Heath	206
Stockland Green	203
Aston	184
Gravelly Hill	182
Nechells	147

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Aston?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Aston to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Aston compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Aston and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Aston is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bordesley & Highgate	80
2	Lozells	79
3	Birchfield	79
4	Soho & Jewellery Quarter	76
5	Ladywood	70
6	Newtown	68
7	Sparkbrook & Balsall Heath East	62
8	Nechells	62
9	Alum Rock	62
10	Aston	60
11	Bordesley Green	56

Which road in Aston has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Aston with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.