Crime Statistics for Belle Vale, Dudley, Dudley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Belle Vale in October 2024. There were a total of 170 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 Belle Vale, 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	71
Shoplifting	23
Anti Social Behaviour	16
Vehicle Crime	13
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Burglary	10
Public Order	8
Other Theft	8
Other Crime	6
Robbery	2
Drugs	1
All Crime	170

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 Belle Vale. 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 Belle Vale

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bowling Green (1.39 miles)	469
Dudley Wood (1.39 miles)	268
Halesowen (0.62 miles)	248
Haden Cross (0.88 miles)	204
Coombeswood (1.39 miles)	190
Short Cross (0.62 miles)	174
Belle Vale	170
Cradley (0.62 miles)	151
Cradley Heath (0.88 miles)	142
Hasbury (0.62 miles)	124

Where are the most violent places near Belle Vale?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bowling Green	212
Halesowen	156
Coombeswood	116
Dudley Wood	114
Cradley Heath	113
Haden Cross	105
Belle Vale	71
Cradley	61
Short Cross	57
Hasbury	45

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

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 Belle Vale 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 Belle Vale compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Rowley	67
2	Netherton, Woodside and St Andrews	59
3	Cradley Heath and Old Hill	57
4	Blackheath	56
5	Quarry Bank and Dudley Wood	54
6	Lye and Stourbridge North	50
7	Cradley and Wollescote	50
8	Halesowen North	48
9	Halesowen South	42
10	Belle Vale	34
11	Hayley Green and Cradley South	21

Which road in Belle Vale has the highest level of crime?

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