Crime Statistics for Langley Green, Sandwell, Sandwell, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Langley Green in September 2024. There were a total of 418 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 Langley Green, 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	192
Vehicle Crime	47
Anti Social Behaviour	34
Criminal Damage Arson	34
Public Order	26
Shoplifting	26
Burglary	20
Other Theft	16
Drugs	10
Other Crime	7
Robbery	4
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	418

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 Langley Green. 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 Langley Green

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Tat Bank	576
Warley Woods (1.39 miles)	544
Causeway Green	462
Langley Green	426
Blackheath (1.39 miles)	367
Langley	286
Londonderry (0.62 miles)	268
Oldbury (0.88 miles)	268
Portway (1.39 miles)	247
Bristnall Fields (0.62 miles)	205

Where are the most violent places near Langley Green?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tat Bank	210
Causeway Green	208
Warley Woods	201
Langley Green	192
Blackheath	162
Londonderry	131
Portway	125
Langley	124
Oldbury	118
Bristnall Fields	82

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

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 Langley Green 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 Langley Green compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Langley Green and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Langley Green is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Rowley	67
2	Langley	65
3	Quinton	62
4	Cradley Heath and Old Hill	57
5	Blackheath	56
6	Old Warley	56
7	Abbey	55
8	Bristnall	54
9	Oldbury	54
10	Halesowen North	48
11	Belle Vale	34

Which road in Langley Green has the highest level of crime?

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