Crime Statistics for Water Orton, Warwickshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Water Orton in September 2024. There were a total of 120 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 Water Orton, 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	53
Shoplifting	17
Vehicle Crime	16
Public Order	8
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Anti Social Behaviour	6
Other Theft	3
Robbery	3
Drugs	3
Burglary	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	120

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 Water Orton. 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 Water Orton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Shard End (2.24 miles)	776
Castle Bromwich (1.75 miles)	277
Castle Vale (1.86 miles)	187
Coleshill (1.75 miles)	160
Water Orton	120
Minworth (1.39 miles)	117
Cole End (1.75 miles)	80
Curdworth (0.62 miles)	70
Chattle Hill (1.39 miles)	35
Lea Marston (2.24 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Water Orton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Shard End	337
Castle Bromwich	166
Coleshill	120
Castle Vale	57
Water Orton	53
Minworth	43
Curdworth	38
Cole End	30
Chattle Hill	9
Lea Marston	0

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

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 Water Orton 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 Water Orton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Water Orton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Water Orton is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Shard End	86
2	Kingshurst and Fordbridge	85
3	Chelmsley Wood	83
4	Smith's Wood	76
5	Castle Vale	66
6	Castle Bromwich	64
7	Coleshill South	57
8	Water Orton	49
9	Curdworth	35
10	Coleshill North	32
11	Sutton Walmley & Minworth	24

Which road in Water Orton has the highest level of crime?

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