Crime Statistics for Stour, Dudley, Dudley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Stour in September 2024. There were a total of 436 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 Stour, 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	150
Shoplifting	73
Vehicle Crime	42
Other Theft	34
Public Order	29
Criminal Damage Arson	28
Anti Social Behaviour	22
Drugs	16
Robbery	14
Burglary	12
Possession Of Weapons	8
Other Crime	4
Theft From The Person	2
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	436

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 Stour. 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 Stour

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Brockmoor (0.83 miles)	510
Silver End (0.78 miles)	430
Stour	359
Hart’s Hill (1 miles)	346
Dudley Wood (1.14 miles)	326
Brierley Hill (0.28 miles)	286
Round Oak (0.39 miles)	267
Bowling Green (1.14 miles)	250
Cradley Heath (1.41 miles)	184
Stour Bridge Canal (1.39 miles)	176

Where are the most violent places near Stour?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Brockmoor	190
Silver End	153
Stour	150
Round Oak	144
Dudley Wood	132
Hart’s Hill	121
Stour Bridge Canal	90
Bowling Green	88
Brierley Hill	77
Cradley Heath	69

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

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 Stour 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 Stour compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Rowley	67
2	Netherton, Woodside and St Andrews	59
3	Brierley Hill	58
4	Brockmoor and Pensnett	58
5	Quarry Bank and Dudley Wood	54
6	Lye and Stourbridge North	50
7	Cradley and Wollescote	50
8	Wollaston and Stourbridge Town	50
9	Pedmore and Stourbridge East	40
10	Amblecote	39
11	Wordsley	26

Which road in Stour has the highest level of crime?

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