Crime Statistics for Leamore, Walsall, Walsall, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Leamore in September 2024. There were a total of 462 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 Leamore, 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	177
Anti Social Behaviour	56
Shoplifting	50
Criminal Damage Arson	36
Vehicle Crime	35
Burglary	28
Other Crime	21
Public Order	17
Other Theft	17
Robbery	10
Drugs	8
Possession Of Weapons	3
Bicycle Theft	2
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	462

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 Leamore. 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 Leamore

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Birchills (0.88 miles)	666
Coal Pool	656
New Invention (1.39 miles)	488
Short Heath (1.24 miles)	485
Blakenall Heath (0.88 miles)	463
Leamore	450
Wallington Heath	347
Bloxwich	332
Lane Head (1.24 miles)	325
Dudley’s Fields (0.88 miles)	279

Where are the most violent places near Leamore?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Birchills	241
Coal Pool	228
Leamore	177
Short Heath	166
Blakenall Heath	164
New Invention	160
Bloxwich	134
Wallington Heath	128
Dudley’s Fields	101
Lane Head	98

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

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 Leamore 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 Leamore compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Leamore and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Leamore is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Blakenall	83
2	Pleck	77
3	St Matthew's	76
4	Bloxwich East	74
5	Willenhall South	73
6	Bentley and Darlaston North	70
7	Short Heath	69
8	Birchills Leamore	69
9	Essington	65
10	Bloxwich West	60
11	Willenhall North	58

Which road in Leamore has the highest level of crime?

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