Crime Statistics for Haden Cross, Sandwell, Sandwell, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Haden Cross in October 2024. There were a total of 221 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 Haden Cross, 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	105
Shoplifting	24
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Anti Social Behaviour	15
Burglary	13
Vehicle Crime	12
Public Order	10
Other Crime	8
Other Theft	6
Robbery	4
Drugs	4
Possession Of Weapons	3
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	221

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 Haden Cross. 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 Haden Cross

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bowling Green (1.39 miles)	469
Rowley Regis (1.24 miles)	308
Dudley Wood (1.39 miles)	268
Blackheath (0.88 miles)	247
Haden Cross	204
Coombeswood (0.62 miles)	190
Short Cross (0.62 miles)	174
Belle Vale (0.88 miles)	170
Cradley (1.39 miles)	151
Cradley Heath (1.24 miles)	142

Where are the most violent places near Haden Cross?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bowling Green	212
Rowley Regis	148
Blackheath	117
Coombeswood	116
Dudley Wood	114
Cradley Heath	113
Haden Cross	105
Belle Vale	71
Cradley	61
Short Cross	57

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

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 Haden Cross 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 Haden Cross compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Haden Cross and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Haden Cross is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Rowley	67
2	Langley	65
3	Netherton, Woodside and St Andrews	59
4	Cradley Heath and Old Hill	57
5	Blackheath	56
6	Quarry Bank and Dudley Wood	54
7	Cradley and Wollescote	50
8	Halesowen North	48
9	Halesowen South	42
10	Belle Vale	34
11	Hayley Green and Cradley South	21

Which road in Haden Cross has the highest level of crime?

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