Crime Statistics for Turves Green, Birmingham, Birmingham, 2025

Is Turves Green rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 622 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 Turves Green, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime242
Shoplifting88
Vehicle Crime70
Anti Social Behaviour54
Criminal Damage Arson48
Other Theft40
Burglary26
Other Crime12
Possession Of Weapons12
Drugs10
Public Order10
Robbery8
Bicycle Theft2
All Crime622

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Turves Green. 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 Turves Green

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Turves Green554
Shenley Fields (1.86 miles)374
Longbridge (0.88 miles)295
Cofton Common (0.88 miles)286
Rubery (1.96 miles)223
New Frankley220
Walker’s Heath (1.86 miles)206
Griffins Hill (1.96 miles)185
Rednal (1.75 miles)144
Frankley (2.24 miles)84

10.75%
of Longbridge & West Heath residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Turves Green?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Turves Green242
Shenley Fields196
New Frankley154
Cofton Common152
Longbridge150
Walker’s Heath100
Griffins Hill82
Rubery79
Rednal78
Frankley49

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

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 Turves Green 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 Turves Green compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Turves Green and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Turves Green is ranked #8.

#WardScore
1King's Norton South85
2Frankley Great Park82
3Allens Cross78
4Bartley Green74
5Rubery & Rednal74
6King's Norton North72
7Northfield68
8Longbridge & West Heath67
9Cofton58
10Barnt Green & Hopwood50
11Belbroughton & Romsley43

Which road in Turves Green has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2025
Information provided by data.police.uk
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