Crime Statistics for Edial, Lichfield, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Edial in August 2024. There were a total of 26 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 Edial, 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	10
Anti Social Behaviour	6
Burglary	2
Public Order	2
Other Crime	2
Other Theft	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Shoplifting	1
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	26

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 Edial. 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 Edial

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Chasetown (1.24 miles)	215
Burntwood (1.39 miles)	177
Gorsley Ley (0.88 miles)	105
Burntwood Green	47
Edial	26
Chorley (1.24 miles)	24
Creswell Green (1.24 miles)	24
Hammerwich (0.88 miles)	9
Wall (1.75 miles)	3
Pipehill (1.24 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Edial?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Gorsley Ley	74
Chasetown	63
Burntwood	58
Burntwood Green	16
Creswell Green	12
Edial	10
Chorley	10
Hammerwich	4
Wall	2
Pipehill	0

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

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 Edial 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 Edial compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Edial and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Edial is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Chasetown	55
2	Brownhills	46
3	Hammerwich with Wall	37
4	Aldridge North and Walsall Wood	37
5	Shenstone	32
6	Boney Hay & Central	29
7	Leomansley	25
8	Chase Terrace	24
9	Summerfield & All Saints	22
10	St John's	14
11	Highfield	12

Which road in Edial has the highest level of crime?

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