Crime Statistics for Wednesbury Oak, Sandwell, Sandwell, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Wednesbury Oak in September 2024. There were a total of 287 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Wednesbury Oak, 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	122
Public Order	25
Anti Social Behaviour	23
Criminal Damage Arson	22
Burglary	21
Vehicle Crime	21
Other Theft	16
Shoplifting	15
Other Crime	9
Possession Of Weapons	6
Drugs	4
Robbery	3
All Crime	287

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 Wednesbury Oak. 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 Wednesbury Oak

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Tipton Green (1.39 miles)	551
Tipton (1.39 miles)	508
Church Hill (1.39 miles)	472
Ocker Hill (0.88 miles)	327
Lower Bradley (0.88 miles)	315
Wednesbury (1.39 miles)	306
Wednesbury Oak	287
Coseley (1.24 miles)	216
Wallbrook (1.39 miles)	193
Harvills Hawthorn (1.39 miles)	169

Where are the most violent places near Wednesbury Oak?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tipton Green	224
Tipton	217
Church Hill	164
Ocker Hill	138
Harvills Hawthorn	135
Wednesbury Oak	122
Lower Bradley	107
Wednesbury	95
Coseley	92
Wallbrook	87

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

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 Wednesbury Oak 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 Wednesbury Oak compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Wednesbury Oak and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Wednesbury Oak is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bentley and Darlaston North	70
2	Tipton Green	69
3	Great Bridge	69
4	Princes End	67
5	Darlaston South	64
6	Wednesbury South	63
7	Wednesbury North	62
8	Upper Gornal and Woodsetton	54
9	Coseley East	54
10	Spring Vale	51
11	Sedgley	39

Which road in Wednesbury Oak has the highest level of crime?

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