Crime Statistics for Sparkhill, Birmingham, Birmingham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sparkhill in October 2024. There were a total of 517 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Sparkhill, 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	259
Vehicle Crime	37
Anti Social Behaviour	34
Burglary	33
Criminal Damage Arson	33
Public Order	23
Other Theft	22
Shoplifting	20
Drugs	15
Other Crime	12
Possession Of Weapons	12
Robbery	8
Theft From The Person	5
Bicycle Theft	4
All Crime	517

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 Sparkhill. 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 Sparkhill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Highgate (1.75 miles)	889
Sparkbrook (0.88 miles)	653
Tyseley (1.39 miles)	563
Acocks Green (1.24 miles)	544
Moseley (0.62 miles)	542
Sparkhill	517
Balsall Heath (1.39 miles)	466
Billesley (1.86 miles)	309
Springfield (1.24 miles)	251
Hall Green (1.75 miles)	240

Where are the most violent places near Sparkhill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Highgate	307
Sparkbrook	296
Acocks Green	264
Sparkhill	259
Moseley	230
Tyseley	216
Balsall Heath	170
Billesley	111
Hall Green	103
Springfield	91

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

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 Sparkhill 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 Sparkhill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Stirchley	75
2	Billesley	73
3	Acocks Green	72
4	Balsall Heath West	71
5	Moseley	71
6	Brandwood & King's Heath	67
7	Tyseley & Hay Mills	63
8	Sparkbrook & Balsall Heath East	62
9	Hall Green North	57
10	Sparkhill	54
11	Small Heath	48

Which road in Sparkhill has the highest level of crime?

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