Crime Statistics for Dudley Port, Sandwell, Sandwell, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Dudley Port in September 2024. There were a total of 315 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Dudley Port, 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	135
Other Theft	29
Vehicle Crime	29
Criminal Damage Arson	25
Anti Social Behaviour	19
Shoplifting	19
Public Order	18
Other Crime	11
Burglary	10
Possession Of Weapons	9
Drugs	6
Theft From The Person	2
Robbery	2
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	315

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 Dudley Port. 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 Port

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Burnt Tree (0.88 miles)	691
Tipton Green (0.88 miles)	551
Tipton (0.88 miles)	508
Kates Hill (0.88 miles)	433
Dudley Port	315
Oakham (1.24 miles)	313
Tividale (0.62 miles)	295
Great Bridge (0.88 miles)	279
Horseley Heath (0.88 miles)	279
Toll End (0.88 miles)	279

Where are the most violent places near Dudley Port?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Burnt Tree	295
Tipton Green	224
Tipton	217
Oakham	195
Kates Hill	174
Dudley Port	135
Tividale	125
Horseley Heath	121
Great Bridge	107
Toll End	107

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

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 Port 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 Port compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Tipton Green	69
2	Greets Green and Lyng	69
3	Great Bridge	69
4	St Thomas's	66
5	Wednesbury South	63
6	Castle and Priory	60
7	Tividale	60
8	Netherton, Woodside and St Andrews	59
9	St James's	56
10	Upper Gornal and Woodsetton	54
11	Coseley East	54

Which road in Dudley Port has the highest level of crime?

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