Crime Statistics for Roughley, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Roughley in October 2024. There were a total of 80 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Roughley, 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	22
Shoplifting	13
Vehicle Crime	13
Burglary	12
Other Theft	6
Robbery	4
Other Crime	3
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	80

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 Roughley. 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 Roughley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Tudor Hill (1.96 miles)	118
Moor Hall (0.62 miles)	113
Roughley	80
Watford Gap (0.88 miles)	63
Four Oaks Park (0.88 miles)	63
Four Oaks (1.24 miles)	41
Little Aston (1.96 miles)	19
Streetly (1.96 miles)	18
Carroway Head (1.86 miles)	7
Little Hay (1.86 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Roughley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tudor Hill	45
Moor Hall	39
Roughley	22
Watford Gap	20
Four Oaks Park	20
Four Oaks	14
Little Aston	10
Streetly	9
Carroway Head	3
Little Hay	0

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

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 Roughley 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 Roughley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Roughley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Roughley have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Bourne Vale.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bourne Vale	40
2	Sutton Vesey	40
3	Sutton Reddicap	35
4	Sutton Wylde Green	35
5	Sutton Trinity	32
6	Shenstone	32
7	Sutton Roughley	24
8	Little Aston & Stonnall	20
9	Streetly	15
10	Sutton Four Oaks	13
11	Sutton Mere Green	13

Which road in Roughley has the highest level of crime?

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