Crime Statistics for Dudley, , 2025

Is Dudley rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 326 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Dudley, 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	148
Criminal Damage Arson	30
Anti Social Behaviour	28
Public Order	22
Vehicle Crime	20
Burglary	15
Other Theft	14
Shoplifting	13
Drugs	13
Other Crime	9
Possession Of Weapons	7
Robbery	4
Theft From The Person	2
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	326

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Dudley. 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 Dudley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Eve Hill	504
Hart’s Hill (1.39 miles)	473
Burnt Tree (1.24 miles)	340
Dudley	326
Kates Hill (1.24 miles)	326
Tansley Hill (1.39 miles)	286
London Fields (0.62 miles)	236
Lower Gornal (0.88 miles)	230
Russells Hall (0.88 miles)	229
Gornalwood (1.24 miles)	181

Where are the most violent places near Dudley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Eve Hill	251
Hart’s Hill	231
Burnt Tree	177
Dudley	148
Kates Hill	143
Tansley Hill	131
Lower Gornal	129
London Fields	111
Gornalwood	105
Russells Hall	102

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

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 Dudley 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 Dudley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Dudley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Dudley have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Wordsley.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Thomas's	66
2	Castle and Priory	60
3	Netherton, Woodside and St Andrews	59
4	Brierley Hill	58
5	Brockmoor and Pensnett	58
6	St James's	56
7	Upper Gornal and Woodsetton	54
8	Coseley East	54
9	Quarry Bank and Dudley Wood	54
10	Gornal	40
11	Wordsley	26

Which road in Dudley has the highest level of crime?

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