Crime Statistics for Little Bloxwich, Walsall, Walsall, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Little Bloxwich in September 2024. There were a total of 261 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 Little Bloxwich, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime99
Shoplifting44
Anti Social Behaviour26
Criminal Damage Arson24
Vehicle Crime13
Burglary12
Public Order11
Other Theft10
Drugs8
Robbery6
Other Crime3
Possession Of Weapons3
Bicycle Theft1
Theft From The Person1
All Crime261

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 Little Bloxwich. 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 Little Bloxwich

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Blakenall Heath463
Wallington Heath (0.88 miles)347
Bloxwich (0.88 miles)332
Little Bloxwich261
Fishley261
Heath End (1.39 miles)214
Pelsall Wood213
Pelsall142
Highbridge (1.39 miles)73
Hobble End14

2.66%
of Essington residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Little Bloxwich?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Blakenall Heath164
Bloxwich134
Wallington Heath128
Heath End121
Little Bloxwich99
Fishley99
Pelsall Wood81
Pelsall58
Highbridge29
Hobble End6

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

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 Little Bloxwich 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 Little Bloxwich compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Blakenall83
2St Matthew's76
3Bloxwich East74
4Short Heath69
5Birchills Leamore69
6Essington65
7Bloxwich West60
8Willenhall North58
9Rushall-Shelfield47
10Pelsall45
11Great Wyrley Landywood39

Which road in Little Bloxwich has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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