Crime Statistics for Netherton, Dudley, Dudley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Netherton in October 2024. There were a total of 216 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 Netherton, 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	78
Vehicle Crime	23
Shoplifting	21
Anti Social Behaviour	18
Public Order	15
Other Theft	14
Burglary	13
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Drugs	6
Possession Of Weapons	5
Robbery	4
Other Crime	3
Bicycle Theft	3
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	216

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 Netherton. 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 Netherton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bowling Green (1.24 miles)	469
Hart’s Hill (1.24 miles)	405
Round Oak (1.39 miles)	346
Tansley Hill (0.88 miles)	308
Rowley Regis (1.39 miles)	308
Dudley Wood (1.24 miles)	268
Baptist End	216
Netherton	216
Springfield (1.24 miles)	199
Oakham (1.39 miles)	195

Where are the most violent places near Netherton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bowling Green	212
Hart’s Hill	152
Rowley Regis	148
Tansley Hill	122
Round Oak	116
Dudley Wood	114
Oakham	93
Springfield	92
Baptist End	78
Netherton	78

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

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 Netherton 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 Netherton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Rowley	67
2	St Thomas's	66
3	Castle and Priory	60
4	Tividale	60
5	Netherton, Woodside and St Andrews	59
6	Brierley Hill	58
7	Brockmoor and Pensnett	58
8	St James's	56
9	Blackheath	56
10	Quarry Bank and Dudley Wood	54
11	Amblecote	39

Which road in Netherton has the highest level of crime?

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