Crime Statistics for Bromford, Birmingham, Birmingham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bromford in September 2024. There were a total of 565 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 Bromford, 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	247
Vehicle Crime	62
Burglary	48
Public Order	35
Criminal Damage Arson	34
Anti Social Behaviour	34
Other Theft	28
Other Crime	21
Shoplifting	20
Robbery	16
Possession Of Weapons	10
Drugs	6
Bicycle Theft	4
All Crime	565

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 Bromford. 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 Bromford

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Rea (1.39 miles)	700
Bromford	563
Erdington (0.88 miles)	534
Ward End (1.39 miles)	516
Hodgehill (1.24 miles)	486
Colehall (1.75 miles)	451
Gravelly Hill (1.24 miles)	363
Birches Green (0.62 miles)	356
Tyburn (0.88 miles)	244
Castle Vale (1.39 miles)	187

Where are the most violent places near Bromford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Rea	331
Ward End	268
Bromford	247
Hodgehill	234
Erdington	227
Colehall	205
Gravelly Hill	182
Birches Green	177
Tyburn	88
Castle Vale	57

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

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 Bromford 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 Bromford compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bromford and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bromford is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Gravelly Hill	87
2	Shard End	86
3	Stockland Green	74
4	Ward End	73
5	Bromford & Hodge Hill	71
6	Castle Vale	66
7	Castle Bromwich	64
8	Nechells	62
9	Erdington	60
10	Pype Hayes	55
11	Sutton Wylde Green	35

Which road in Bromford has the highest level of crime?

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