Crime Statistics for Amington, Tamworth, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Amington in September 2024. There were a total of 155 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 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	70
Vehicle Crime	16
Anti Social Behaviour	14
Public Order	13
Other Theft	12
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Shoplifting	7
Burglary	5
Possession Of Weapons	2
Robbery	2
Other Crime	2
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	155

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 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)	277
Kettlebrook (1.39 miles)	249
Anker (1.75 miles)	234
Borough Park (1.39 miles)	226
Belgrave (1.39 miles)	208
Bitterscote (1.96 miles)	202
Tamworth (0.88 miles)	198
Amington	155
Alvecote (0.62 miles)	85
Shuttington (1.39 miles)	8

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
Borough Park	112
Tamworth	94
Bolehall	93
Kettlebrook	89
Belgrave	78
Anker	76
Amington	70
Bitterscote	67
Alvecote	38
Shuttington	3

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 Galena Close.