Crime Statistics for Wednesbury Oak, Sandwell, Sandwell, 2024

Is Wednesbury Oak rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for December 2024. There were a total of 325 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 Wednesbury Oak, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime162
Shoplifting41
Criminal Damage Arson32
Anti Social Behaviour22
Vehicle Crime13
Public Order12
Other Crime12
Burglary12
Other Theft9
Possession Of Weapons5
Theft From The Person2
Drugs2
Robbery1
All Crime325

Map of street level crime incidents in December 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Wednesbury Oak. 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 Wednesbury Oak

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Tipton Green (1.39 miles)365
Ocker Hill (0.88 miles)327
Wednesbury Oak325
Lower Bradley (0.88 miles)319
Church Hill (1.39 miles)262
Wednesbury (1.39 miles)262
Tipton (1.39 miles)252
Harvills Hawthorn (1.39 miles)237
Wallbrook (1.39 miles)210
Coseley (1.24 miles)198

11.66%
of Princes End residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Wednesbury Oak?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Tipton Green184
Wednesbury Oak162
Ocker Hill141
Lower Bradley136
Tipton106
Wallbrook105
Coseley94
Church Hill92
Wednesbury92
Harvills Hawthorn85

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

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 Wednesbury Oak 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 Wednesbury Oak compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Bentley and Darlaston North70
2Tipton Green69
3Great Bridge69
4Princes End67
5Darlaston South64
6Wednesbury South63
7Wednesbury North62
8Upper Gornal and Woodsetton54
9Coseley East54
10Spring Vale51
11Sedgley39

Which road in Wednesbury Oak has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: December 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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