Crime Statistics for Dosthill, Tamworth, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Dosthill in September 2024. There were a total of 20 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 Dosthill, 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	7
Vehicle Crime	6
Other Theft	3
Other Crime	1
Burglary	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
All Crime	20

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 Dosthill. 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 Dosthill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Kettlebrook (1.86 miles)	277
Belgrave (1.39 miles)	208
Two Gates (0.62 miles)	161
Fazeley (1.39 miles)	98
Bonehill (1.76 miles)	61
Hockley (0.62 miles)	56
Edge Hill (1.75 miles)	26
Dosthill	20
Birmingham and Fazeley Canal (0.5 miles)	15
Drayton Bassett (1.24 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Dosthill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Kettlebrook	95
Belgrave	78
Two Gates	49
Fazeley	34
Hockley	25
Bonehill	24
Edge Hill	8
Dosthill	7
Birmingham and Fazeley Canal	1
Drayton Bassett	0

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

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 Dosthill 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 Dosthill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Dosthill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Dosthill have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Glascote.

#	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 Dosthill has the highest level of crime?

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