Crime Statistics for Warley Woods, Sandwell, Sandwell, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Warley Woods in September 2024. There were a total of 557 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 Warley Woods, 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	201
Vehicle Crime	52
Other Theft	50
Criminal Damage Arson	46
Shoplifting	46
Anti Social Behaviour	44
Public Order	32
Burglary	30
Drugs	22
Robbery	12
Other Crime	10
Possession Of Weapons	6
Theft From The Person	6
All Crime	557

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 Warley Woods. 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 Warley Woods

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Warley Woods	544
Beech Lanes	498
Causeway Green (1.39 miles)	462
Langley Green (1.39 miles)	426
Bearwood	346
Langley (1.76 miles)	286
Londonderry (0.88 miles)	268
Harborne (1.39 miles)	255
California (1.86 miles)	222
Bristnall Fields	205

Where are the most violent places near Warley Woods?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Causeway Green	208
Warley Woods	201
Langley Green	192
Beech Lanes	188
Bearwood	151
California	150
Londonderry	131
Langley	124
Harborne	103
Bristnall Fields	82

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

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 Warley Woods 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 Warley Woods compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Warley Woods and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Warley Woods is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	North Edgbaston	75
2	Langley	65
3	Soho and Victoria	63
4	Harborne	62
5	Quinton	62
6	Old Warley	56
7	Abbey	55
8	Bristnall	54
9	Oldbury	54
10	Smethwick	52
11	Halesowen South	42

Which road in Warley Woods has the highest level of crime?

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