Crime Statistics for Stour, Dudley, Dudley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Stour in October 2024. There were a total of 368 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 Stour, 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	119
Shoplifting	72
Anti Social Behaviour	31
Burglary	23
Criminal Damage Arson	23
Vehicle Crime	21
Public Order	20
Other Theft	16
Drugs	13
Other Crime	12
Possession Of Weapons	7
Bicycle Theft	6
Robbery	3
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	368

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 Stour. 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 Stour

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bowling Green (1.14 miles)	469
Brockmoor (0.83 miles)	454
Hart’s Hill (1 miles)	405
Brierley Hill (0.28 miles)	404
Round Oak (0.39 miles)	346
Stour	332
Dudley Wood (1.14 miles)	268
Silver End (0.78 miles)	241
Stour Bridge Canal (1.39 miles)	194
Cradley Heath (1.41 miles)	142

Where are the most violent places near Stour?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bowling Green	212
Brockmoor	192
Brierley Hill	170
Hart’s Hill	152
Stour	119
Round Oak	116
Dudley Wood	114
Cradley Heath	113
Stour Bridge Canal	93
Silver End	90

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

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 Stour 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 Stour compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Rowley	67
2	Netherton, Woodside and St Andrews	59
3	Brierley Hill	58
4	Brockmoor and Pensnett	58
5	Quarry Bank and Dudley Wood	54
6	Lye and Stourbridge North	50
7	Cradley and Wollescote	50
8	Wollaston and Stourbridge Town	50
9	Pedmore and Stourbridge East	40
10	Amblecote	39
11	Wordsley	26

Which road in Stour has the highest level of crime?

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