Crime Statistics for Amington, Tamworth, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Amington in October 2024. There were a total of 131 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 Amington, 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	59
Anti Social Behaviour	16
Criminal Damage Arson	15
Vehicle Crime	11
Public Order	7
Other Crime	6
Other Theft	6
Burglary	4
Drugs	2
Shoplifting	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Robbery	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	131

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bolehall (1.39 miles)	534
Kettlebrook (1.39 miles)	267
Tamworth (0.88 miles)	226
Anker (1.75 miles)	225
Borough Park (1.39 miles)	214
Bitterscote (1.96 miles)	196
Belgrave (1.39 miles)	158
Amington	131
Alvecote (0.62 miles)	72
Shuttington (1.39 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Amington?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bolehall	346
Belgrave	119
Kettlebrook	91
Tamworth	83
Borough Park	82
Anker	81
Bitterscote	73
Amington	59
Alvecote	30
Shuttington	2

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

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 Amington 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 Amington compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Amington and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Amington is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Glascote	74
2	Belgrave	63
3	Stonydelph	63
4	Castle	61
5	Bolehall	56
6	Spital	52
7	Amington	38
8	Wilnecote	37
9	Newton Regis and Warton	29
10	Polesworth West	17
11	Mease Valley	11

Which road in Amington has the highest level of crime?

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