Crime Statistics for Harborne, Birmingham, Birmingham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Harborne in October 2024. There were a total of 570 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 Harborne, 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	210
Vehicle Crime	66
Burglary	56
Criminal Damage Arson	56
Shoplifting	42
Anti Social Behaviour	36
Other Theft	28
Public Order	26
Robbery	14
Drugs	14
Possession Of Weapons	12
Other Crime	4
Bicycle Theft	4
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	570

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 Harborne. 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 Harborne

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lodge Hill (1.24 miles)	572
Harborne	548
Edgbaston (1.86 miles)	379
Warley Woods (1.39 miles)	354
Bearwood (1.24 miles)	348
California (0.88 miles)	305
Bartley Green (1.39 miles)	276
Shenley Fields (1.86 miles)	256
Beech Lanes (0.88 miles)	219
Bournbrook (1.75 miles)	103

Where are the most violent places near Harborne?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lodge Hill	272
Bearwood	224
Harborne	210
Shenley Fields	200
Warley Woods	179
Beech Lanes	159
California	151
Bartley Green	134
Edgbaston	105
Bournbrook	97

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

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 Harborne 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 Harborne compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Harborne and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Harborne is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Allens Cross	78
2	Bartley Green	74
3	Weoley & Selly Oak	71
4	Harborne	62
5	Quinton	62
6	Bournville & Cotteridge	60
7	Bournbrook & Selly Park	56
8	Old Warley	56
9	Abbey	55
10	Bristnall	54
11	Halesowen South	42

Which road in Harborne has the highest level of crime?

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