Crime Statistics for Portway, Sandwell, Sandwell, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Portway in September 2024. There were a total of 266 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 Portway, 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	125
Anti Social Behaviour	24
Criminal Damage Arson	23
Vehicle Crime	22
Burglary	18
Public Order	16
Other Theft	12
Drugs	8
Shoplifting	5
Possession Of Weapons	5
Robbery	4
Other Crime	4
All Crime	266

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 Portway. 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 Portway

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Rowley Regis (0.88 miles)	436
Langley Green (1.39 miles)	426
Blackheath (1.24 miles)	367
Tansley Hill (1.39 miles)	325
Oakham (0.88 miles)	313
Langley (1.24 miles)	286
Oldbury	268
Round’s Green (0.88 miles)	252
Portway	247
Springfield (0.62 miles)	189

Where are the most violent places near Portway?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Rowley Regis	212
Oakham	195
Langley Green	192
Blackheath	162
Tansley Hill	134
Round’s Green	128
Portway	125
Langley	124
Oldbury	118
Springfield	92

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

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 Portway 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 Portway compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Greets Green and Lyng	69
2	Rowley	67
3	Langley	65
4	Tividale	60
5	Netherton, Woodside and St Andrews	59
6	Cradley Heath and Old Hill	57
7	Blackheath	56
8	Oldbury	54
9	Quarry Bank and Dudley Wood	54
10	Halesowen North	48
11	Belle Vale	34

Which road in Portway has the highest level of crime?

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