Crime Statistics for Dam Mill, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Dam Mill in October 2024. There were a total of 97 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Dam Mill, 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	43
Shoplifting	21
Anti Social Behaviour	7
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Other Theft	5
Vehicle Crime	4
Burglary	4
Public Order	4
Robbery	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
Drugs	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	97

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 Dam Mill. 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 Dam Mill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Claregate (0.88 miles)	188
Stockwell End (1.24 miles)	182
Tettenhall (1.24 miles)	182
Palmers Cross (0.62 miles)	156
Codsall (0.88 miles)	145
Shropshire Union Canal (0.67 miles)	109
Dam Mill	97
Pendeford (0.62 miles)	96
Bilbrook (0.62 miles)	78
Lane Green (0.62 miles)	78

Where are the most violent places near Dam Mill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Codsall	64
Shropshire Union Canal	58
Palmers Cross	57
Claregate	56
Stockwell End	45
Tettenhall	45
Dam Mill	43
Bilbrook	40
Lane Green	40
Pendeford	39

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

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 Dam Mill 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 Dam Mill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Bushbury South and Low Hill	64
2	Park	62
3	Bilbrook	40
4	Bushbury North	36
5	Oxley	30
6	Tettenhall Regis	28
7	Codsall North	23
8	Tettenhall Wightwick	18
9	Perton Lakeside	17
10	Codsall South	13
11	Perton East	7

Which road in Dam Mill has the highest level of crime?

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