Crime Statistics for Ruiton, Dudley, Dudley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ruiton in September 2024. There were a total of 129 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Ruiton, 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	51
Anti Social Behaviour	18
Criminal Damage Arson	15
Vehicle Crime	12
Other Theft	11
Public Order	6
Burglary	6
Other Crime	5
Shoplifting	4
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	129

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 Ruiton. 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 Ruiton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Eve Hill (1.76 miles)	759
Dudley (1.76 miles)	734
London Fields (1.39 miles)	265
Lower Gornal (0.88 miles)	217
Gornalwood (1.24 miles)	203
Wallbrook (1.96 miles)	193
Cinder Hill (1.39 miles)	170
Upper Gornal (0.62 miles)	151
Ruiton	129
Gospel End Village (1.39 miles)	26

Where are the most violent places near Ruiton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Eve Hill	301
Dudley	284
Lower Gornal	164
London Fields	121
Upper Gornal	121
Gornalwood	113
Wallbrook	87
Cinder Hill	70
Ruiton	51
Gospel End Village	26

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

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 Ruiton 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 Ruiton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ruiton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Ruiton is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Thomas's	66
2	Himley and Swindon	64
3	Castle and Priory	60
4	Brockmoor and Pensnett	58
5	St James's	56
6	Upper Gornal and Woodsetton	54
7	Coseley East	54
8	Spring Vale	51
9	Gornal	40
10	Sedgley	39
11	Kingswinford South	20

Which road in Ruiton has the highest level of crime?

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