Crime Statistics for Watford Gap, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Watford Gap in September 2024. There were a total of 80 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 Watford Gap, 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	36
Shoplifting	12
Vehicle Crime	10
Anti Social Behaviour	5
Other Theft	5
Public Order	4
Burglary	4
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Theft From The Person	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	80

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 Watford Gap. 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 Watford Gap

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Moor Hall (1.39 miles)	134
Four Oaks (0.88 miles)	105
Roughley (0.88 miles)	87
Watford Gap	80
Four Oaks Park (1.24 miles)	75
Black Brook (2.39 miles)	31
Little Aston (1.24 miles)	28
Streetly (1.76 miles)	17
Shenstone Woodend (1.24 miles)	5
Little Hay (1.39 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Watford Gap?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Four Oaks	53
Moor Hall	49
Roughley	36
Watford Gap	36
Little Aston	27
Four Oaks Park	24
Black Brook	13
Streetly	5
Shenstone Woodend	2
Little Hay	1

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

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 Watford Gap 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 Watford Gap compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Bourne Vale	40
2	Sutton Vesey	40
3	Sutton Reddicap	35
4	Sutton Trinity	32
5	Shenstone	32
6	Pheasey Park Farm	28
7	Sutton Roughley	24
8	Little Aston & Stonnall	20
9	Streetly	15
10	Sutton Four Oaks	13
11	Sutton Mere Green	13

Which road in Watford Gap has the highest level of crime?

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