Crime Statistics for Mayer’s Green, Sandwell, Sandwell, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Mayer’s Green in October 2024. There were a total of 663 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Mayer’s Green, 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	257
Anti Social Behaviour	66
Criminal Damage Arson	54
Other Theft	51
Shoplifting	42
Burglary	40
Public Order	38
Vehicle Crime	31
Drugs	27
Possession Of Weapons	20
Robbery	13
Theft From The Person	12
Other Crime	8
Bicycle Theft	4
All Crime	663

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 Mayer’s Green. 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 Mayer’s Green

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Grand Union Canal (1.22 miles)	596
Mayer’s Green	587
Sandwell (1.39 miles)	461
Lambert’s End	441
Handsworth (1.39 miles)	419
Black Lake (1.39 miles)	415
Churchfield	384
Balls Hill (1.75 miles)	305
Charlemont	238
Newton (1.75 miles)	81

Where are the most violent places near Mayer’s Green?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Grand Union Canal	299
Mayer’s Green	257
Sandwell	213
Lambert’s End	174
Handsworth	164
Churchfield	157
Black Lake	153
Balls Hill	115
Charlemont	106
Newton	25

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Mayer’s Green?

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 Mayer’s Green 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 Mayer’s Green compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Mayer’s Green and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Mayer’s Green is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Handsworth	83
2	Holyhead	76
3	West Bromwich Central	74
4	Hateley Heath	73
5	Greets Green and Lyng	69
6	Great Bridge	69
7	Handsworth Wood	66
8	Wednesbury South	63
9	Oldbury	54
10	St Pauls	54
11	Smethwick	52

Which road in Mayer’s Green has the highest level of crime?

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