Crime Statistics for Stirchley, Birmingham, Birmingham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Stirchley in September 2024. There were a total of 566 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 Stirchley, 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	206
Shoplifting	67
Anti Social Behaviour	58
Vehicle Crime	54
Criminal Damage Arson	38
Burglary	36
Other Theft	32
Public Order	24
Drugs	18
Robbery	12
Possession Of Weapons	12
Other Crime	9
All Crime	566

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 Stirchley. 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 Stirchley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Stirchley	562
Bournbrook (0.88 miles)	405
Edgbaston (1.86 miles)	344
Alcester Lane’s End (1.39 miles)	317
Bournville	306
Ten Acres	305
Moor Green (0.88 miles)	289
Shenley Fields (1.86 miles)	264
Walker’s Heath (1.86 miles)	256
Griffins Hill (1.24 miles)	243

Where are the most violent places near Stirchley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Stirchley	206
Moor Green	160
Walker’s Heath	143
Bournbrook	135
Alcester Lane’s End	135
Shenley Fields	125
Griffins Hill	118
Ten Acres	116
Bournville	113
Edgbaston	89

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

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 Stirchley 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 Stirchley compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	King's Norton South	85
2	Allens Cross	78
3	Druids Heath & Monyhull	78
4	Stirchley	75
5	Bartley Green	74
6	King's Norton North	72
7	Weoley & Selly Oak	71
8	Northfield	68
9	Brandwood & King's Heath	67
10	Bournville & Cotteridge	60
11	Bournbrook & Selly Park	56

Which road in Stirchley has the highest level of crime?

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