Crime Statistics for Cross Green, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cross Green 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 Other Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Cross 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	48
Other Crime	31
Vehicle Crime	12
Burglary	12
Other Theft	8
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Drugs	8
Public Order	4
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 Cross 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 Cross Green

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bushbury (1.39 miles)	213
Fordhouses (1.24 miles)	127
Shropshire Union Canal (2.04 miles)	109
Cross Green	66
Brinsford	33
Featherstone (1.86 miles)	23
Shareshill (1.96 miles)	23
Little Saredon (2.24 miles)	7
Four Ashes (1.86 miles)	6
Lower Green (1.39 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Cross Green?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Fordhouses	101
Bushbury	66
Shropshire Union Canal	58
Cross Green	48
Shareshill	14
Featherstone	13
Brinsford	12
Little Saredon	4
Four Ashes	1
Lower Green	1

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

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Bushbury South and Low Hill	64
2	Fallings Park	54
3	Huntington and Hatherton	49
4	Featherstone and Shareshill	46
5	Wednesfield North	43
6	Bilbrook	40
7	Bushbury North	36
8	Oxley	30
9	Tettenhall Regis	28
10	Brewood and Coven	23
11	Codsall North	23

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

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