Crime Statistics for Sowe, Coventry, Coventry, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sowe in September 2024. There were a total of 1141 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 Sowe, 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	423
Shoplifting	161
Vehicle Crime	120
Anti Social Behaviour	90
Other Theft	85
Criminal Damage Arson	48
Robbery	39
Bicycle Theft	36
Burglary	34
Public Order	28
Drugs	26
Theft From The Person	24
Other Crime	17
Possession Of Weapons	10
All Crime	1141

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 Sowe. 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 Sowe

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Great Heath (1.24 miles)	1456
Church End (0.92 miles)	1163
Sowe	1081
Lower Stoke (0.68 miles)	971
Gosford Green (0.06 miles)	771
Spon End (1.33 miles)	674
Stoke (1.3 miles)	666
Pinley (0.92 miles)	224
Stoke Aldermoor (0.92 miles)	224
Cheylesmore (0.84 miles)	171

Where are the most violent places near Sowe?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Great Heath	565
Church End	477
Sowe	423
Lower Stoke	303
Gosford Green	244
Spon End	205
Stoke	195
Pinley	77
Stoke Aldermoor	77
Cheylesmore	56

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

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 Sowe 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 Sowe compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Sowe and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Sowe is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Radford	71
2	St Michael's	64
3	Upper Stoke	63
4	Lower Stoke	58
5	Sherbourne	54
6	Binley and Willenhall	51
7	Westwood	43
8	Whoberley	42
9	Earlsdon	35
10	Cheylesmore	31
11	Wainbody	10

Which road in Sowe has the highest level of crime?

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