Crime Statistics for Shard End, Birmingham, Birmingham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Shard End in September 2024. There were a total of 781 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 Shard End, 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	337
Shoplifting	88
Vehicle Crime	72
Other Theft	64
Criminal Damage Arson	58
Anti Social Behaviour	36
Public Order	34
Burglary	30
Drugs	18
Other Crime	16
Possession Of Weapons	12
Robbery	8
Bicycle Theft	6
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	781

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 Shard End. 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 Shard End

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Shard End	776
Garrets Green (1.96 miles)	739
Hodgehill (1.86 miles)	486
Buckland End (0.62 miles)	451
Colehall (0.62 miles)	451
Bacon’s End (1.39 miles)	393
Lea Hall (1.39 miles)	392
Tile Cross (1.39 miles)	291
Castle Bromwich (0.62 miles)	277
Castle Vale (1.96 miles)	187

Where are the most violent places near Shard End?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Shard End	337
Lea Hall	239
Hodgehill	234
Garrets Green	233
Buckland End	205
Colehall	205
Castle Bromwich	166
Bacon’s End	142
Tile Cross	112
Castle Vale	57

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

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 Shard End 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 Shard End compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Shard End and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Shard End is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Shard End	86
2	Kingshurst and Fordbridge	85
3	Chelmsley Wood	83
4	Smith's Wood	76
5	Glebe Farm & Tile Cross	75
6	Garretts Green	75
7	Ward End	73
8	Bromford & Hodge Hill	71
9	Castle Bromwich	64
10	Yardley East	63
11	Sheldon	57

Which road in Shard End has the highest level of crime?

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