Crime Statistics for Birchfield, Birmingham, Birmingham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Birchfield in October 2024. There were a total of 710 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 Birchfield, 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	303
Vehicle Crime	59
Drugs	51
Criminal Damage Arson	50
Anti Social Behaviour	50
Other Theft	48
Public Order	43
Burglary	35
Shoplifting	19
Other Crime	14
Robbery	14
Possession Of Weapons	13
Bicycle Theft	7
Theft From The Person	4
All Crime	710

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 Birchfield. 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 Birchfield

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Handsworth Wood (1.24 miles)	766
Short Heath (1.76 miles)	763
Birchfield	710
Stockland Green (1.39 miles)	553
Gib Heath (1.75 miles)	538
Aston (0.88 miles)	484
Tame (0.78 miles)	427
Nechells (1.39 miles)	376
Tower Hill (1.76 miles)	261
Tame Valley Canal (1.68 miles)	256

Where are the most violent places near Birchfield?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Gib Heath	487
Tame	365
Short Heath	363
Handsworth Wood	328
Birchfield	303
Stockland Green	223
Aston	201
Nechells	156
Tame Valley Canal	93
Tower Hill	90

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

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 Birchfield 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 Birchfield compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Gravelly Hill	87
2	Handsworth	83
3	Lozells	79
4	Birchfield	79
5	Soho & Jewellery Quarter	76
6	Ladywood	70
7	Newtown	68
8	Handsworth Wood	66
9	Nechells	62
10	Aston	60
11	Perry Barr	50

Which road in Birchfield has the highest level of crime?

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