Crime Statistics for Balls Hill, Sandwell, Sandwell, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Balls Hill in October 2024. There were a total of 305 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 Balls 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	115
Shoplifting	39
Vehicle Crime	26
Burglary	20
Other Theft	19
Anti Social Behaviour	19
Criminal Damage Arson	19
Public Order	16
Other Crime	12
Drugs	10
Possession Of Weapons	7
Theft From The Person	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	305

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 Balls 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 Balls Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Stone Cross (0.88 miles)	459
Lambert’s End	441
Black Lake	415
Churchfield (1.39 miles)	384
Balls Hill	305
Friar Park (0.88 miles)	286
Hall Green (0.88 miles)	286
Ocker Hill (1.24 miles)	257
Charlemont	238
Harvills Hawthorn	198

Where are the most violent places near Balls Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Stone Cross	224
Ocker Hill	178
Lambert’s End	174
Churchfield	157
Black Lake	153
Harvills Hawthorn	139
Friar Park	132
Hall Green	132
Balls Hill	115
Charlemont	106

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Balls 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 Balls 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 Balls Hill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Balls Hill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Balls Hill is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Hateley Heath	73
2	Bentley and Darlaston North	70
3	Tipton Green	69
4	Greets Green and Lyng	69
5	Great Bridge	69
6	Princes End	67
7	Darlaston South	64
8	Wednesbury South	63
9	Wednesbury North	62
10	Friar Park	55
11	Oldbury	54

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

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