Crime Statistics for Boldmere, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Boldmere in October 2024. There were a total of 494 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 Boldmere, 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	177
Shoplifting	100
Anti Social Behaviour	45
Criminal Damage Arson	34
Burglary	32
Vehicle Crime	28
Other Theft	28
Public Order	22
Robbery	14
Possession Of Weapons	4
Drugs	4
Other Crime	2
Bicycle Theft	2
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	494

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 Boldmere. 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 Boldmere

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Short Heath (1.75 miles)	763
Erdington (1.86 miles)	548
Boldmere	453
Banners Gate (1.96 miles)	296
New Oscott (0.62 miles)	283
Falcon Lodge (2.24 miles)	247
Walmley (1.39 miles)	169
Maney (0.88 miles)	143
Reddicap Heath (1.39 miles)	138
Tudor Hill (1.24 miles)	118

Where are the most violent places near Boldmere?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Short Heath	363
Erdington	229
Boldmere	177
Banners Gate	146
New Oscott	138
Falcon Lodge	88
Maney	50
Reddicap Heath	47
Tudor Hill	45
Walmley	42

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

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 Boldmere 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 Boldmere compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Boldmere and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Boldmere is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Gravelly Hill	87
2	Stockland Green	74
3	Kingstanding	67
4	Perry Common	67
5	Castle Vale	66
6	Erdington	60
7	Pype Hayes	55
8	Perry Barr	50
9	Sutton Vesey	40
10	Sutton Wylde Green	35
11	Sutton Trinity	32

Which road in Boldmere has the highest level of crime?

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