Crime Statistics for Walker’s Heath, Birmingham, Birmingham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Walker’s Heath in September 2024. There were a total of 281 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 Walker’s Heath, 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	143
Criminal Damage Arson	33
Anti Social Behaviour	17
Vehicle Crime	13
Public Order	13
Drugs	12
Robbery	11
Other Theft	11
Other Crime	7
Shoplifting	7
Burglary	6
Possession Of Weapons	6
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	281

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 Walker’s Heath. 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 Walker’s Heath

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Stirchley (1.86 miles)	562
Turves Green (1.86 miles)	499
Alcester Lane’s End (1.75 miles)	317
Bournville (1.96 miles)	306
Ten Acres (1.86 miles)	305
Walker’s Heath	256
Hollywood (1.96 miles)	43
Bateman’s Green (1.75 miles)	18
Lea End (1.96 miles)	12
Forhill (1.86 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Walker’s Heath?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Turves Green	216
Stirchley	206
Walker’s Heath	143
Alcester Lane’s End	135
Ten Acres	116
Bournville	113
Hollywood	13
Bateman’s Green	6
Lea End	1
Forhill	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Walker’s Heath?

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 Walker’s Heath 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 Walker’s Heath compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Walker’s Heath and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Walker’s Heath have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Hollywood.

#	Ward	Score
1	King's Norton South	85
2	Allens Cross	78
3	Druids Heath & Monyhull	78
4	King's Norton North	72
5	Northfield	68
6	Highter's Heath	67
7	Wythall East	58
8	Wythall West	50
9	Barnt Green & Hopwood	50
10	Drakes Cross	46
11	Hollywood	37

Which road in Walker’s Heath has the highest level of crime?

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