Crime Statistics for Dudley Wood, Sandwell, Sandwell, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Dudley Wood in August 2024. There were a total of 4 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Public Order, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Public Order2
Violent Crime2
All Crime4

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Dudley Wood. 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 Dudley Wood

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Baptist End (1.24 miles)183
Cradley Heath (0.62 miles)2
Dudley Wood2
Bowling Green2
Haden Cross (1.39 miles)1
Stour (1.14 miles)0
Round Oak (1.39 miles)0
Brierley Hill (1.24 miles)0
Netherton (1.24 miles)0
Cradley (1.24 miles)0

5.1%
of Quarry Bank and Dudley Wood residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Dudley Wood?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Baptist End73
Dudley Wood2
Cradley Heath1
Bowling Green1
Haden Cross0
Stour0
Round Oak0
Brierley Hill0
Netherton0
Cradley0

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

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 Dudley Wood 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 Dudley Wood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Dudley Wood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Dudley Wood is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1Rowley67
2Netherton, Woodside and St Andrews59
3Brierley Hill58
4Cradley Heath and Old Hill57
5Blackheath56
6Quarry Bank and Dudley Wood54
7Lye and Stourbridge North50
8Cradley and Wollescote50
9Halesowen North48
10Amblecote39
11Belle Vale34

Which road in Dudley Wood has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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