Crime Statistics for Gilbertstone, Birmingham, Birmingham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Gilbertstone in September 2024. There were a total of 871 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 Gilbertstone, 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	270
Shoplifting	160
Other Theft	120
Anti Social Behaviour	66
Vehicle Crime	58
Public Order	44
Criminal Damage Arson	32
Other Crime	27
Burglary	26
Robbery	26
Possession Of Weapons	16
Drugs	14
Theft From The Person	10
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	871

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 Gilbertstone. 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 Gilbertstone

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

Location	Crime Incidents
South Yardley (0.62 miles)	962
Gilbertstone	868
Garrets Green (0.88 miles)	739
Little Bromwich (2.24 miles)	611
Stockfield (0.62 miles)	574
Tyseley (1.24 miles)	562
Acocks Green (1.39 miles)	561
Sheldon (1.24 miles)	424
Lea Hall (1.39 miles)	392
Ulverley Green (1.86 miles)	138

Where are the most violent places near Gilbertstone?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
South Yardley	318
Gilbertstone	270
Little Bromwich	253
Lea Hall	239
Garrets Green	233
Tyseley	233
Acocks Green	218
Stockfield	202
Sheldon	161
Ulverley Green	64

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

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 Gilbertstone 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 Gilbertstone compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Garretts Green	75
2	Acocks Green	72
3	Yardley East	63
4	Yardley West & Stechford	63
5	Tyseley & Hay Mills	63
6	South Yardley	61
7	Hall Green North	57
8	Sheldon	57
9	Lyndon	48
10	Olton	44
11	Elmdon	40

Which road in Gilbertstone has the highest level of crime?

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