Crime Statistics for Pendeford, Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Pendeford in September 2024. There were a total of 111 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 Pendeford, 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	45
Shoplifting	14
Burglary	11
Vehicle Crime	10
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Other Theft	7
Public Order	6
Anti Social Behaviour	5
Possession Of Weapons	4
Other Crime	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	111

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 Pendeford. 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 Pendeford

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal (1.32 miles)	449
Fordhouses (1.39 miles)	202
Shropshire Union Canal (0.25 miles)	192
Claregate (0.62 miles)	148
Pendeford	111
Dam Mill (0.62 miles)	89
Palmers Cross (0.88 miles)	89
Bilbrook (0.88 miles)	63
Lane Green (0.88 miles)	63
Codsall (1.39 miles)	48

Where are the most violent places near Pendeford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal	175
Shropshire Union Canal	91
Fordhouses	80
Claregate	53
Pendeford	45
Dam Mill	33
Bilbrook	28
Lane Green	28
Palmers Cross	26
Codsall	19

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

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 Pendeford 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 Pendeford compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	St Peter's	72
2	Bushbury South and Low Hill	64
3	Park	62
4	Bilbrook	40
5	Bushbury North	36
6	Oxley	30
7	Tettenhall Regis	28
8	Codsall North	23
9	Tettenhall Wightwick	18
10	Codsall South	13
11	Perton East	7

Which road in Pendeford has the highest level of crime?

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