Crime Statistics for Ocker Hill, Sandwell, Sandwell, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ocker Hill in September 2024. There were a total of 327 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Ocker 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	138
Criminal Damage Arson	33
Shoplifting	32
Anti Social Behaviour	24
Vehicle Crime	22
Public Order	21
Burglary	17
Other Theft	11
Other Crime	11
Possession Of Weapons	9
Robbery	6
Drugs	3
All Crime	327

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 Ocker 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 Ocker Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Tipton Green (1.39 miles)	551
Tipton (1.39 miles)	508
Black Lake (1.39 miles)	468
Ocker Hill	327
Wednesbury Oak (0.88 miles)	287
Balls Hill (1.24 miles)	284
Great Bridge (0.62 miles)	279
Horseley Heath (0.62 miles)	279
Toll End (0.62 miles)	279
Harvills Hawthorn (0.62 miles)	169

Where are the most violent places near Ocker Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tipton Green	224
Tipton	217
Black Lake	174
Balls Hill	153
Ocker Hill	138
Harvills Hawthorn	135
Wednesbury Oak	122
Horseley Heath	121
Great Bridge	107
Toll End	107

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

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

#	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	Castle and Priory	60
11	Coseley East	54

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

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