Crime Statistics for Fallings Heath, Walsall, Walsall, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Fallings Heath in September 2024. There were a total of 425 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Fallings Heath, 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	140
Shoplifting	78
Anti Social Behaviour	42
Other Theft	35
Vehicle Crime	35
Criminal Damage Arson	27
Burglary	17
Public Order	12
Other Crime	9
Robbery	9
Drugs	7
Bicycle Theft	5
Possession Of Weapons	5
Theft From The Person	4
All Crime	425

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 Fallings Heath. 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 Fallings Heath

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Church Hill (0.62 miles)	472
Fallings Heath	425
Pleck (0.88 miles)	328
Bentley (1.24 miles)	320
Wednesbury (0.62 miles)	306
Bescot	306
Stone Cross (1.75 miles)	305
Friar Park (1.75 miles)	305
Hall Green (1.75 miles)	305
Wednesbury Oak (1.75 miles)	287

Where are the most violent places near Fallings Heath?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Church Hill	164
Stone Cross	145
Friar Park	145
Hall Green	145
Fallings Heath	140
Pleck	123
Wednesbury Oak	122
Bentley	117
Bescot	117
Wednesbury	95

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

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 Fallings Heath 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 Fallings Heath compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Bilston East	82
2	Pleck	77
3	Willenhall South	73
4	Hateley Heath	73
5	Bentley and Darlaston North	70
6	Bilston North	68
7	Princes End	67
8	Darlaston South	64
9	Wednesbury South	63
10	Wednesbury North	62
11	Friar Park	55

Which road in Fallings Heath has the highest level of crime?

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