Crime Statistics for Short Cross, Dudley, Dudley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Short Cross in September 2024. There were a total of 237 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 Short Cross, 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	93
Vehicle Crime	36
Shoplifting	32
Anti Social Behaviour	21
Other Theft	19
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Burglary	8
Possession Of Weapons	4
Other Crime	4
Public Order	3
Robbery	2
Bicycle Theft	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	237

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 Short Cross. 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 Short Cross

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Blackheath (1.39 miles)	367
Haden Cross (0.62 miles)	319
Short Cross	228
Cradley (1.24 miles)	221
Cradley Heath (1.39 miles)	184
Coombeswood (0.88 miles)	179
Belle Vale (0.62 miles)	164
Hasbury (0.88 miles)	121
Halesowen (0.88 miles)	121
Lapal (1.39 miles)	82

Where are the most violent places near Short Cross?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Blackheath	162
Haden Cross	133
Short Cross	93
Cradley	81
Cradley Heath	69
Coombeswood	65
Belle Vale	64
Hasbury	44
Halesowen	44
Lapal	16

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

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 Short Cross 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 Short Cross compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Rowley	67
2	Langley	65
3	Netherton, Woodside and St Andrews	59
4	Cradley Heath and Old Hill	57
5	Blackheath	56
6	Quarry Bank and Dudley Wood	54
7	Cradley and Wollescote	50
8	Halesowen North	48
9	Halesowen South	42
10	Belle Vale	34
11	Hayley Green and Cradley South	21

Which road in Short Cross has the highest level of crime?

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