Crime Statistics for Rea, Birmingham, Birmingham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Rea in October 2024. There were a total of 420 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 Rea, 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	184
Anti Social Behaviour	38
Vehicle Crime	31
Criminal Damage Arson	31
Other Theft	30
Shoplifting	17
Burglary	17
Public Order	16
Possession Of Weapons	14
Robbery	14
Drugs	12
Other Crime	10
Theft From The Person	6
All Crime	420

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 Rea. 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 Rea

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hodgehill (1.39 miles)	789
Ward End (0.88 miles)	597
Stockland Green (1.39 miles)	553
Aston (1.24 miles)	484
Washwood Heath (0.62 miles)	448
Rea	420
Gravelly Hill (0.62 miles)	381
Nechells (0.62 miles)	376
Bromford (1.39 miles)	304
Birches Green (0.88 miles)	282

Where are the most violent places near Rea?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hodgehill	411
Ward End	277
Birches Green	232
Stockland Green	223
Washwood Heath	208
Aston	201
Gravelly Hill	197
Rea	184
Nechells	156
Bromford	151

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

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 Rea 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 Rea compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Rea and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Rea is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Gravelly Hill	87
2	Ward End	73
3	Bromford & Hodge Hill	71
4	Newtown	68
5	Sparkbrook & Balsall Heath East	62
6	Nechells	62
7	Alum Rock	62
8	Aston	60
9	Erdington	60
10	Bordesley Green	56
11	Heartlands	56

Which road in Rea has the highest level of crime?

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