Crime Statistics for Bearwood, Sandwell, Sandwell, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bearwood in October 2024. There were a total of 520 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Burglary.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bearwood, 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	224
Burglary	60
Vehicle Crime	55
Shoplifting	35
Public Order	29
Other Theft	24
Criminal Damage Arson	20
Robbery	18
Anti Social Behaviour	18
Possession Of Weapons	14
Drugs	11
Other Crime	5
Theft From The Person	5
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	520

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 Bearwood. 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 Bearwood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ladywood (1.86 miles)	1214
Rotton Park (1.39 miles)	735
Harborne (1.24 miles)	548
Sandwell (1.86 miles)	461
Warley Woods	354
Bearwood	348
Londonderry (1.39 miles)	332
Causeway Green (1.96 miles)	311
Bristnall Fields	240
Beech Lanes (0.88 miles)	219

Where are the most violent places near Bearwood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ladywood	493
Rotton Park	284
Bearwood	224
Sandwell	213
Harborne	210
Warley Woods	179
Beech Lanes	159
Causeway Green	147
Londonderry	146
Bristnall Fields	92

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

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 Bearwood 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 Bearwood compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Soho & Jewellery Quarter	76
2	North Edgbaston	75
3	Soho and Victoria	63
4	Harborne	62
5	Quinton	62
6	Edgbaston	59
7	Bournbrook & Selly Park	56
8	Old Warley	56
9	Abbey	55
10	Bristnall	54
11	Smethwick	52

Which road in Bearwood has the highest level of crime?

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