Crime Statistics for Turves Green, Birmingham, Birmingham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Turves Green in October 2024. There were a total of 656 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	260
Criminal Damage Arson	60
Shoplifting	60
Vehicle Crime	56
Anti Social Behaviour	54
Public Order	48
Other Theft	38
Other Crime	16
Burglary	16
Possession Of Weapons	16
Robbery	16
Drugs	10
Bicycle Theft	4
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	656

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 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.

Location	Crime Incidents
Turves Green	525
Cofton Common (0.88 miles)	485
Rubery (1.96 miles)	361
New Frankley	290
Shenley Fields (1.86 miles)	256
Longbridge (0.88 miles)	245
Walker’s Heath (1.86 miles)	206
Griffins Hill (1.96 miles)	206
Frankley (2.24 miles)	158
Rednal (1.75 miles)	98

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.

Location	Violent Incidents
Turves Green	260
Cofton Common	218
Shenley Fields	200
Griffins Hill	157
Rubery	153
Frankley	134
New Frankley	122
Longbridge	110
Walker’s Heath	95
Rednal	49

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.

#	Ward	Score
1	King's Norton South	85
2	Frankley Great Park	82
3	Allens Cross	78
4	Bartley Green	74
5	Rubery & Rednal	74
6	King's Norton North	72
7	Northfield	68
8	Longbridge & West Heath	67
9	Cofton	58
10	Barnt Green & Hopwood	50
11	Belbroughton & Romsley	43

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.