Crime Statistics for Erdington, Birmingham, Birmingham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Erdington in September 2024. There were a total of 534 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Erdington, 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 Crime227
Criminal Damage Arson41
Shoplifting41
Other Theft40
Anti Social Behaviour39
Vehicle Crime38
Burglary32
Public Order24
Other Crime16
Robbery12
Drugs12
Possession Of Weapons9
Theft From The Person2
Bicycle Theft1
All Crime534

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 Erdington. 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 Erdington

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Rea (1.39 miles)700
Bromford (0.88 miles)563
Erdington534
Stockland Green (1.24 miles)467
Short Heath (1.39 miles)452
Gravelly Hill (0.88 miles)363
Birches Green (0.62 miles)356
Nechells (1.76 miles)333
Tyburn (1.24 miles)244
Walmley (1.75 miles)163

30.42%
of Gravelly Hill residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Erdington?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Rea331
Bromford247
Erdington227
Short Heath221
Stockland Green203
Gravelly Hill182
Birches Green177
Nechells147
Tyburn88
Walmley48

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

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 Erdington 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 Erdington compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Erdington and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Erdington have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Sutton Wylde Green.

#WardScore
1Gravelly Hill87
2Stockland Green74
3Ward End73
4Bromford & Hodge Hill71
5Perry Common67
6Castle Vale66
7Nechells62
8Erdington60
9Pype Hayes55
10Sutton Vesey40
11Sutton Wylde Green35

Which road in Erdington has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Erdington 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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