Crime Statistics for Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, Lichfield, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Birmingham and Fazeley Canal in October 2024. There were a total of 16 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Vehicle Crime	5
Violent Crime	5
Other Theft	2
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Shoplifting	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
All Crime	16

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 Birmingham and Fazeley Canal. 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 Birmingham and Fazeley Canal

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bitterscote (1.87 miles)	196
Belgrave (1.67 miles)	158
Two Gates (0.79 miles)	121
Fazeley (1.25 miles)	95
Hockley (1.12 miles)	57
Bonehill (1.45 miles)	52
Mile Oak (1.84 miles)	35
Dosthill (0.5 miles)	26
Birmingham and Fazeley Canal	16
Drayton Bassett (0.74 miles)	5

Where are the most violent places near Birmingham and Fazeley Canal?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Belgrave	119
Bitterscote	73
Mile Oak	40
Fazeley	33
Two Gates	30
Hockley	21
Bonehill	21
Dosthill	10
Birmingham and Fazeley Canal	5
Drayton Bassett	1

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Birmingham and Fazeley Canal?

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 Birmingham and Fazeley Canal 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 Birmingham and Fazeley Canal compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Glascote	74
2	Belgrave	63
3	Stonydelph	63
4	Castle	61
5	Bolehall	56
6	Dordon	50
7	Kingsbury	46
8	Fazeley	42
9	Wilnecote	37
10	Trinity	27
11	Hurley and Wood End	25

Which road in Birmingham and Fazeley Canal has the highest level of crime?

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