Crime Statistics for Beech Lanes, Birmingham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Beech Lanes in September 2024. There were a total of 497 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 Beech Lanes, 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	188
Vehicle Crime	52
Burglary	52
Other Theft	48
Criminal Damage Arson	34
Anti Social Behaviour	26
Drugs	26
Public Order	24
Shoplifting	24
Other Crime	9
Possession Of Weapons	6
Robbery	4
Theft From The Person	4
All Crime	497

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 Beech Lanes. 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 Beech Lanes

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Warley Woods	544
Beech Lanes	498
Causeway Green (1.75 miles)	462
Langley Green (1.75 miles)	426
Bearwood (0.88 miles)	346
Londonderry (1.39 miles)	268
Harborne (0.88 miles)	255
Bartley Green (1.86 miles)	251
California (1.24 miles)	222
Bristnall Fields (1.39 miles)	205

Where are the most violent places near Beech Lanes?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Beech Lanes 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
Bartley Green	126
Harborne	103
Bristnall Fields	82

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

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 Beech Lanes 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 Beech Lanes compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Bartley Green	74
2	Weoley & Selly Oak	71
3	Langley	65
4	Soho and Victoria	63
5	Harborne	62
6	Quinton	62
7	Bournbrook & Selly Park	56
8	Old Warley	56
9	Abbey	55
10	Bristnall	54
11	Halesowen South	42

Which road in Beech Lanes has the highest level of crime?

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