Crime Statistics for Billesley Common, Birmingham, Birmingham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Billesley Common in October 2024. There were a total of 319 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 Billesley Common, 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	111
Vehicle Crime	39
Anti Social Behaviour	37
Criminal Damage Arson	33
Other Theft	21
Public Order	19
Burglary	14
Shoplifting	13
Robbery	11
Possession Of Weapons	10
Other Crime	5
Drugs	4
Theft From The Person	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	319

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Billesley Common. 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 Billesley Common

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Moseley (1.86 miles)	542
Moor Green (1.75 miles)	436
Warstock (0.88 miles)	393
Billesley Common	319
Billesley (0.62 miles)	309
Alcester Lane’s End (0.62 miles)	303
Springfield (0.88 miles)	251
Hasluck’s Green (1.76 miles)	90
Cole (1.78 miles)	59
Hollywood (1.86 miles)	56

Where are the most violent places near Billesley Common?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Moseley	230
Warstock	144
Moor Green	126
Alcester Lane’s End	113
Billesley Common	111
Billesley	111
Springfield	91
Hasluck’s Green	28
Cole	24
Hollywood	15

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Billesley Common?

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 Billesley Common 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 Billesley Common compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Billesley Common and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Billesley Common is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	King's Norton South	85
2	Druids Heath & Monyhull	78
3	Billesley	73
4	Highter's Heath	67
5	Brandwood & King's Heath	67
6	Wythall East	58
7	Shirley West	56
8	Hall Green South	51
9	Wythall West	50
10	Drakes Cross	46
11	Hollywood	37

Which road in Billesley Common has the highest level of crime?

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