Crime Statistics for Ladywood, Birmingham, Birmingham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ladywood in October 2024. There were a total of 1247 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 Ladywood, 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	493
Vehicle Crime	131
Burglary	110
Other Theft	108
Criminal Damage Arson	76
Shoplifting	74
Anti Social Behaviour	64
Public Order	44
Drugs	42
Theft From The Person	34
Robbery	26
Possession Of Weapons	26
Bicycle Theft	16
Other Crime	3
All Crime	1247

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 Ladywood. 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 Ladywood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Netchells Green (1.96 miles)	2766
Bordesley (1.86 miles)	1576
Ladywood	1214
Highgate (1.39 miles)	889
Rotton Park (0.88 miles)	735
Sparkbrook (2.24 miles)	653
Gib Heath (1.24 miles)	538
Balsall Heath (1.75 miles)	466
Edgbaston (1.24 miles)	379
Bearwood (1.86 miles)	348

Where are the most violent places near Ladywood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Netchells Green	767
Ladywood	493
Gib Heath	487
Bordesley	437
Highgate	307
Sparkbrook	296
Rotton Park	284
Bearwood	224
Balsall Heath	170
Edgbaston	105

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

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 Ladywood 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 Ladywood compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Bordesley & Highgate	80
2	Lozells	79
3	Soho & Jewellery Quarter	76
4	North Edgbaston	75
5	Balsall Heath West	71
6	Ladywood	70
7	Soho and Victoria	63
8	Harborne	62
9	Edgbaston	59
10	Bournbrook & Selly Park	56
11	Abbey	55

Which road in Ladywood has the highest level of crime?

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