Crime Statistics for Lower Penn, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lower Penn in October 2024. There were a total of 30 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 Lower Penn, 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	13
Vehicle Crime	4
Burglary	4
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Other Theft	3
Robbery	2
Public Order	1
All Crime	30

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Lower Penn. 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 Lower Penn

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Compton (1.96 miles)	330
Penn (1.39 miles)	230
Castlecroft (1.24 miles)	98
The Bratch (1.39 miles)	66
Colton Hills (1.86 miles)	63
Spring Hill (0.62 miles)	53
Giggetty (1.96 miles)	52
Lower Penn	18
Gospel End Village (1.75 miles)	11
Trysull (1.39 miles)	10

Where are the most violent places near Lower Penn?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Penn	116
Compton	102
Castlecroft	45
The Bratch	40
Colton Hills	33
Spring Hill	30
Giggetty	27
Lower Penn	13
Trysull	12
Gospel End Village	4

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

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 Lower Penn 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 Lower Penn compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Graiseley	65
2	Himley and Swindon	64
3	Trysull and Seisdon	51
4	Wombourne North and Lower Penn	29
5	Merry Hill	25
6	Penn	22
7	Wombourne South East	18
8	Tettenhall Wightwick	18
9	Wombourne South West	18
10	Perton Lakeside	17
11	Perton East	7

Which road in Lower Penn has the highest level of crime?

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