Crime Statistics for South Yardley, Birmingham, Birmingham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Yardley in September 2024. There were a total of 968 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in South Yardley, 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	318
Other Theft	138
Shoplifting	116
Vehicle Crime	86
Anti Social Behaviour	66
Burglary	60
Public Order	46
Criminal Damage Arson	40
Other Crime	22
Possession Of Weapons	22
Drugs	22
Robbery	16
Theft From The Person	12
Bicycle Theft	4
All Crime	968

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 South Yardley. 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 South Yardley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
South Yardley	962
Gilbertstone (0.62 miles)	868
Garrets Green (1.39 miles)	739
Bordesley Green (1.75 miles)	611
Little Bromwich (1.75 miles)	611
Stockfield	574
Tyseley (0.62 miles)	562
Acocks Green (0.88 miles)	561
Sheldon (1.86 miles)	424
Lea Hall (1.75 miles)	392

Where are the most violent places near South Yardley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
South Yardley	318
Gilbertstone	270
Bordesley Green	253
Little Bromwich	253
Lea Hall	239
Garrets Green	233
Tyseley	233
Acocks Green	218
Stockfield	202
Sheldon	161

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

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 South Yardley 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 South Yardley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to South Yardley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in South Yardley have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Olton.

#	Ward	Score
1	Acocks Green	72
2	Yardley East	63
3	Yardley West & Stechford	63
4	Tyseley & Hay Mills	63
5	South Yardley	61
6	Hall Green North	57
7	Sheldon	57
8	Heartlands	56
9	Small Heath	48
10	Lyndon	48
11	Olton	44

Which road in South Yardley has the highest level of crime?

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