Crime Statistics for Acocks Green, Birmingham, Birmingham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Acocks Green in September 2024. There were a total of 561 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 Acocks Green, 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	218
Shoplifting	60
Criminal Damage Arson	44
Vehicle Crime	44
Other Theft	37
Burglary	34
Anti Social Behaviour	34
Public Order	32
Drugs	16
Other Crime	14
Possession Of Weapons	10
Robbery	10
Theft From The Person	6
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	561

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 Acocks Green. 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 Acocks Green

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

Location	Crime Incidents
South Yardley (0.88 miles)	962
Gilbertstone (1.39 miles)	868
Stockfield (0.88 miles)	574
Tyseley (0.62 miles)	562
Acocks Green	561
Moseley (1.86 miles)	494
Sparkhill (1.24 miles)	480
Springfield (1.76 miles)	452
Hall Green (1.24 miles)	277
Ulverley Green (1.76 miles)	138

Where are the most violent places near Acocks Green?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Springfield	398
South Yardley	318
Gilbertstone	270
Tyseley	233
Acocks Green	218
Sparkhill	209
Moseley	205
Stockfield	202
Hall Green	137
Ulverley Green	64

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

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 Acocks Green 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 Acocks Green compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Billesley	73
2	Acocks Green	72
3	Moseley	71
4	Tyseley & Hay Mills	63
5	South Yardley	61
6	Hall Green North	57
7	Sparkhill	54
8	Hall Green South	51
9	Small Heath	48
10	Lyndon	48
11	Olton	44

Which road in Acocks Green has the highest level of crime?

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