Crime Statistics for Bentley, Walsall, Walsall, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bentley in September 2024. There were a total of 320 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bentley, 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	117
Anti Social Behaviour	50
Vehicle Crime	40
Criminal Damage Arson	32
Other Theft	15
Public Order	14
Shoplifting	13
Burglary	12
Other Crime	9
Robbery	8
Theft From The Person	3
Bicycle Theft	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
Drugs	2
All Crime	320

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 Bentley. 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 Bentley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Walsall	1131
Birchills (1.39 miles)	666
Short Heath (1.39 miles)	485
Leamore (1.39 miles)	450
Fallings Heath (1.24 miles)	425
Pleck (0.88 miles)	328
Lane Head (1.39 miles)	325
Bentley	320
Ashmore Lake (1.39 miles)	310
Bescot (1.75 miles)	306

Where are the most violent places near Bentley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Walsall	461
Birchills	241
Leamore	177
Short Heath	166
Fallings Heath	140
Pleck	123
Bentley	117
Bescot	117
Lane Head	98
Ashmore Lake	94

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

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 Bentley 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 Bentley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bentley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bentley is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bilston East	82
2	Pleck	77
3	St Matthew's	76
4	Willenhall South	73
5	Bentley and Darlaston North	70
6	Short Heath	69
7	Birchills Leamore	69
8	Bilston North	68
9	Darlaston South	64
10	Wednesbury North	62
11	Friar Park	55

Which road in Bentley has the highest level of crime?

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