Crime Statistics for Rotton Park, Birmingham, Birmingham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Rotton Park in September 2024. There were a total of 694 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Rotton Park, 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	262
Other Theft	80
Vehicle Crime	77
Criminal Damage Arson	53
Anti Social Behaviour	46
Burglary	41
Public Order	39
Shoplifting	30
Robbery	15
Possession Of Weapons	15
Drugs	14
Other Crime	10
Bicycle Theft	6
Theft From The Person	6
All Crime	694

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 Rotton Park. 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 Rotton Park

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ladywood (0.88 miles)	825
Handsworth Wood (1.96 miles)	816
Gib Heath (0.88 miles)	806
Rotton Park	694
Handsworth (1.96 miles)	644
Sandwell (1.75 miles)	615
Warley Woods (1.96 miles)	544
Beech Lanes (2.24 miles)	498
Bearwood (1.39 miles)	346
Edgbaston (1.96 miles)	344

Where are the most violent places near Rotton Park?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Handsworth Wood	352
Gib Heath	306
Handsworth	281
Sandwell	276
Rotton Park	262
Ladywood	251
Warley Woods	201
Beech Lanes	188
Bearwood	151
Edgbaston	89

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

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 Rotton Park 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 Rotton Park compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Rotton Park and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Rotton Park is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bordesley & Highgate	80
2	Lozells	79
3	Soho & Jewellery Quarter	76
4	North Edgbaston	75
5	Ladywood	70
6	Soho and Victoria	63
7	Harborne	62
8	Edgbaston	59
9	Abbey	55
10	Bristnall	54
11	Smethwick	52

Which road in Rotton Park has the highest level of crime?

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