Crime Statistics for Warstock, Birmingham, Birmingham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Warstock in October 2024. There were a total of 430 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 Warstock, 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 Crime144
Vehicle Crime50
Criminal Damage Arson40
Shoplifting40
Public Order34
Anti Social Behaviour34
Other Theft28
Burglary20
Possession Of Weapons14
Robbery10
Other Crime8
Drugs6
Theft From The Person2
All Crime430

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 Warstock. 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 Warstock

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Warstock393
Billesley Common (0.88 miles)319
Billesley (0.62 miles)309
Alcester Lane’s End (1.39 miles)303
Springfield (1.24 miles)251
Hasluck’s Green (0.88 miles)90
Cole (0.92 miles)59
Hollywood (1.39 miles)56
Trueman’s Heath (1.24 miles)51
Major’s Green (1.39 miles)42

11.06%
of Shirley West residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Warstock?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Warstock144
Alcester Lane’s End113
Billesley Common111
Billesley111
Springfield91
Hasluck’s Green28
Trueman’s Heath28
Cole24
Major’s Green16
Hollywood15

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

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 Warstock 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 Warstock compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Warstock and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Warstock is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1Druids Heath & Monyhull78
2Billesley73
3Highter's Heath67
4Brandwood & King's Heath67
5Wythall East58
6Shirley West56
7Hall Green South51
8Wythall West50
9Drakes Cross46
10Hollywood37
11Shirley South20

Which road in Warstock has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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