Crime Statistics for Marston Green, Solihull, Solihull, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Marston Green in September 2024. There were a total of 599 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Marston 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	228
Vehicle Crime	76
Criminal Damage Arson	64
Anti Social Behaviour	48
Other Theft	47
Public Order	40
Shoplifting	36
Burglary	28
Drugs	20
Other Crime	8
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	599

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 Marston 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 Marston Green

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Gilbertstone (2.56 miles)	868
Shard End (2.24 miles)	776
Garrets Green (1.86 miles)	739
Chelmsley Wood (0.88 miles)	436
Sheldon (1.39 miles)	424
Bacon’s End (1.24 miles)	393
Lea Hall (1.96 miles)	392
Marston Green	300
Tile Cross (0.88 miles)	291
Bickenhill (1.96 miles)	63

Where are the most violent places near Marston Green?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Shard End	337
Gilbertstone	270
Lea Hall	239
Garrets Green	233
Marston Green	228
Chelmsley Wood	180
Sheldon	161
Bacon’s End	142
Tile Cross	112
Bickenhill	20

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Marston 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 Marston 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 Marston Green compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Marston Green and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Marston Green is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Kingshurst and Fordbridge	85
2	Chelmsley Wood	83
3	Smith's Wood	76
4	Glebe Farm & Tile Cross	75
5	Garretts Green	75
6	Yardley East	63
7	Sheldon	57
8	Bickenhill	53
9	Lyndon	48
10	Olton	44
11	Elmdon	40

Which road in Marston Green has the highest level of crime?

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