Crime Statistics for New Oscott, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for New Oscott in September 2024. There were a total of 351 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in New Oscott, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime152
Criminal Damage Arson43
Vehicle Crime26
Burglary23
Public Order17
Other Theft16
Shoplifting16
Anti Social Behaviour15
Drugs13
Other Crime10
Robbery7
Possession Of Weapons7
Bicycle Theft4
Theft From The Person2
All Crime351

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 New Oscott. 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 New Oscott

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Erdington (1.96 miles)534
Stockland Green (1.96 miles)467
Short Heath (1.39 miles)452
Boldmere (0.62 miles)335
Banners Gate (1.39 miles)311
New Oscott298
Reddicap Heath (1.96 miles)242
Walmley (1.96 miles)163
Maney (1.39 miles)161
Tudor Hill (1.39 miles)142

10.73%
of Sutton Vesey residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near New Oscott?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Erdington227
Short Heath221
Stockland Green203
New Oscott152
Boldmere149
Banners Gate132
Reddicap Heath65
Maney49
Walmley48
Tudor Hill38

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

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 New Oscott 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 New Oscott compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Gravelly Hill87
2Stockland Green74
3Kingstanding67
4Perry Common67
5Erdington60
6Pype Hayes55
7Perry Barr50
8Sutton Vesey40
9Sutton Wylde Green35
10Sutton Trinity32
11Pheasey Park Farm28

Which road in New Oscott has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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