Crime Statistics for Billesley, Birmingham, Birmingham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Billesley in September 2024. There were a total of 286 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, 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	95
Vehicle Crime	34
Anti Social Behaviour	33
Shoplifting	27
Criminal Damage Arson	25
Public Order	23
Other Theft	22
Burglary	10
Other Crime	7
Robbery	6
Possession Of Weapons	3
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	286

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 Billesley. 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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Sparkhill (1.86 miles)	480
Springfield (0.62 miles)	452
Billesley Common (0.62 miles)	321
Warstock (0.62 miles)	320
Alcester Lane’s End (1.24 miles)	317
Billesley	286
Hall Green (1.39 miles)	277
Hasluck’s Green (1.39 miles)	100
Cole (1.49 miles)	73
Trueman’s Heath (1.86 miles)	35

Where are the most violent places near Billesley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Springfield	398
Sparkhill	209
Hall Green	137
Alcester Lane’s End	135
Warstock	127
Billesley Common	121
Billesley	95
Hasluck’s Green	26
Cole	21
Trueman’s Heath	12

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

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 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 compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Billesley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Billesley is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Druids Heath & Monyhull	78
2	Billesley	73
3	Highter's Heath	67
4	Brandwood & King's Heath	67
5	Wythall East	58
6	Shirley West	56
7	Hall Green South	51
8	Wythall West	50
9	Drakes Cross	46
10	Hollywood	37
11	Shirley East	35

Which road in Billesley has the highest level of crime?

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