Crime Statistics for Hodgehill, Birmingham, Birmingham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hodgehill in October 2024. There were a total of 839 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Hodgehill, 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	411
Anti Social Behaviour	62
Shoplifting	60
Vehicle Crime	59
Criminal Damage Arson	54
Public Order	40
Other Theft	30
Robbery	28
Other Crime	25
Burglary	22
Possession Of Weapons	22
Drugs	18
Theft From The Person	4
Bicycle Theft	4
All Crime	839

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 Hodgehill. 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 Hodgehill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Alum Rock (0.88 miles)	1013
Hodgehill	789
Ward End (0.62 miles)	597
Buckland End (1.24 miles)	516
Colehall (1.24 miles)	516
Washwood Heath (1.24 miles)	448
Lea Hall (1.75 miles)	434
Rea (1.39 miles)	420
Bromford (1.24 miles)	304
Birches Green (1.39 miles)	282

Where are the most violent places near Hodgehill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Alum Rock	494
Hodgehill	411
Ward End	277
Birches Green	232
Washwood Heath	208
Buckland End	190
Colehall	190
Rea	184
Lea Hall	175
Bromford	151

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

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 Hodgehill 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 Hodgehill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hodgehill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hodgehill is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Shard End	86
2	Glebe Farm & Tile Cross	75
3	Ward End	73
4	Bromford & Hodge Hill	71
5	Yardley East	63
6	Yardley West & Stechford	63
7	Nechells	62
8	Alum Rock	62
9	South Yardley	61
10	Sheldon	57
11	Heartlands	56

Which road in Hodgehill has the highest level of crime?

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