Crime Statistics for Tat Bank, Sandwell, Sandwell, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Tat Bank in September 2024. There were a total of 577 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 Tat Bank, 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	210
Shoplifting	60
Criminal Damage Arson	56
Anti Social Behaviour	56
Other Theft	39
Vehicle Crime	36
Public Order	34
Drugs	28
Burglary	22
Other Crime	16
Robbery	8
Possession Of Weapons	8
Theft From The Person	4
All Crime	577

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 Tat Bank. 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 Tat Bank

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Tat Bank	576
Causeway Green	462
Lambert’s End (1.24 miles)	461
Langley Green	426
Grand Union Canal (0.65 miles)	323
Langley	286
Londonderry (1.39 miles)	268
Oldbury (0.88 miles)	268
Round’s Green (0.62 miles)	252
Portway (1.39 miles)	247

Where are the most violent places near Tat Bank?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tat Bank	210
Causeway Green	208
Langley Green	192
Lambert’s End	165
Londonderry	131
Grand Union Canal	130
Round’s Green	128
Portway	125
Langley	124
Oldbury	118

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

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 Tat Bank 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 Tat Bank compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Tat Bank and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Tat Bank is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Greets Green and Lyng	69
2	Great Bridge	69
3	Rowley	67
4	Langley	65
5	Wednesbury South	63
6	Tividale	60
7	Netherton, Woodside and St Andrews	59
8	Bristnall	54
9	Oldbury	54
10	St Pauls	54
11	Smethwick	52

Which road in Tat Bank has the highest level of crime?

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