Crime Statistics for Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, Birmingham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Castle Bromwich in September 2024. There were a total of 386 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 Castle Bromwich, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime166
Shoplifting76
Vehicle Crime50
Other Theft36
Public Order18
Anti Social Behaviour10
Possession Of Weapons6
Criminal Damage Arson6
Burglary6
Drugs4
Robbery4
Other Crime3
Theft From The Person1
All Crime386

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 Castle Bromwich. 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 Castle Bromwich

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Shard End (0.62 miles)776
Hodgehill (1.96 miles)486
Buckland End (0.88 miles)451
Colehall (0.88 miles)451
Bacon’s End (1.75 miles)393
Castle Bromwich277
Tyburn (1.75 miles)244
Castle Vale (1.39 miles)187
Water Orton (1.75 miles)120
Minworth (1.86 miles)117

5.92%
of Castle Bromwich residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Castle Bromwich?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Shard End337
Hodgehill234
Buckland End205
Colehall205
Castle Bromwich166
Bacon’s End142
Tyburn88
Castle Vale57
Water Orton53
Minworth43

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

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 Castle Bromwich 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 Castle Bromwich compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Shard End86
2Kingshurst and Fordbridge85
3Chelmsley Wood83
4Smith's Wood76
5Glebe Farm & Tile Cross75
6Ward End73
7Bromford & Hodge Hill71
8Castle Vale66
9Castle Bromwich64
10Water Orton49
11Sutton Walmley & Minworth24

Which road in Castle Bromwich has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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