Crime Statistics for Brierley Hill, Dudley, Dudley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Brierley Hill in September 2024. There were a total of 286 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 Brierley Hill, 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 Crime77
Shoplifting58
Vehicle Crime31
Other Theft26
Criminal Damage Arson20
Public Order17
Anti Social Behaviour16
Burglary10
Robbery10
Drugs9
Possession Of Weapons6
Other Crime3
Bicycle Theft2
Theft From The Person1
All Crime286

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 Brierley Hill. 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 Brierley Hill

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Brockmoor (0.88 miles)510
Silver End (0.62 miles)430
Stour (0.28 miles)359
Hart’s Hill (1.24 miles)346
Dudley Wood (1.24 miles)326
Brierley Hill286
Round Oak (0.62 miles)267
Bowling Green (1.24 miles)250
Cradley Heath (1.39 miles)184
Stour Bridge Canal (1.34 miles)176

3.85%
of Amblecote residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Brierley Hill?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Brockmoor190
Silver End153
Stour150
Round Oak144
Dudley Wood132
Hart’s Hill121
Stour Bridge Canal90
Bowling Green88
Brierley Hill77
Cradley Heath69

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

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 Brierley Hill 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 Brierley Hill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Rowley67
2Netherton, Woodside and St Andrews59
3Brierley Hill58
4Brockmoor and Pensnett58
5Quarry Bank and Dudley Wood54
6Lye and Stourbridge North50
7Cradley and Wollescote50
8Wollaston and Stourbridge Town50
9Pedmore and Stourbridge East40
10Amblecote39
11Wordsley26

Which road in Brierley Hill has the highest level of crime?

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

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