Crime Statistics for Nechells, Birmingham, Birmingham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Nechells in September 2024. There were a total of 333 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 Nechells, 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	147
Vehicle Crime	47
Other Theft	29
Anti Social Behaviour	23
Public Order	20
Criminal Damage Arson	17
Burglary	12
Shoplifting	9
Robbery	8
Other Crime	7
Drugs	7
Theft From The Person	4
Possession Of Weapons	3
All Crime	333

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 Nechells. 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 Nechells

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Saltley (1.24 miles)	728
Birmingham (1.24 miles)	728
Rea (0.62 miles)	700
Birchfield (1.39 miles)	633
Ward End (1.39 miles)	516
Stockland Green (1.24 miles)	467
Aston (0.62 miles)	459
Washwood Heath (0.88 miles)	440
Gravelly Hill (0.88 miles)	363
Nechells	333

Where are the most violent places near Nechells?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Rea	331
Birchfield	291
Ward End	268
Saltley	259
Birmingham	259
Washwood Heath	206
Stockland Green	203
Aston	184
Gravelly Hill	182
Nechells	147

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

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 Nechells 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 Nechells compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Nechells and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Nechells is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Gravelly Hill	87
2	Lozells	79
3	Birchfield	79
4	Ward End	73
5	Newtown	68
6	Sparkbrook & Balsall Heath East	62
7	Nechells	62
8	Alum Rock	62
9	Aston	60
10	Bordesley Green	56
11	Heartlands	56

Which road in Nechells has the highest level of crime?

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