Crime Statistics for Cofton Common, Birmingham, Birmingham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cofton Common in September 2024. There were a total of 213 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Cofton Common, 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	89
Criminal Damage Arson	24
Anti Social Behaviour	22
Public Order	16
Burglary	16
Vehicle Crime	15
Shoplifting	10
Possession Of Weapons	10
Other Theft	5
Drugs	3
Bicycle Theft	1
Other Crime	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	213

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 Cofton Common. 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 Cofton Common

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Turves Green (0.88 miles)	499
New Frankley (1.39 miles)	307
Rubery	238
Longbridge	202
Cofton Common	196
Rednal (0.88 miles)	150
Eachway (1.96 miles)	71
Cofton Hackett (1.39 miles)	31
Hopwood (1.96 miles)	28
Kendal End (1.96 miles)	19

Where are the most violent places near Cofton Common?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Turves Green	216
New Frankley	120
Rednal	91
Longbridge	89
Cofton Common	89
Rubery	85
Eachway	20
Cofton Hackett	11
Kendal End	9
Hopwood	8

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

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 Cofton Common 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 Cofton Common compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Frankley Great Park	82
2	Allens Cross	78
3	Rubery & Rednal	74
4	Northfield	68
5	Longbridge & West Heath	67
6	Cofton	58
7	Rubery North	52
8	Rubery South	51
9	Barnt Green & Hopwood	50
10	Belbroughton & Romsley	43
11	Marlbrook	31

Which road in Cofton Common has the highest level of crime?

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