Crime Statistics for Drayton Bassett, Lichfield, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Drayton Bassett in August 2024. There were a total of 9 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Drayton Bassett, 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	4
Public Order	2
Burglary	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	9

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Drayton Bassett. 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 Drayton Bassett

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bitterscote (1.96 miles)	202
Two Gates (1.39 miles)	102
Fazeley (1.39 miles)	65
Bonehill (1.24 miles)	61
Hockley (1.86 miles)	58
Dosthill (1.24 miles)	51
Birmingham and Fazeley Canal (0.74 miles)	15
Drayton Bassett	9
Bourne Brook (1.76 miles)	7
Mile Oak (1.39 miles)	7

Where are the most violent places near Drayton Bassett?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bitterscote	67
Fazeley	41
Two Gates	38
Hockley	25
Bonehill	24
Dosthill	19
Drayton Bassett	4
Bourne Brook	3
Mile Oak	2
Birmingham and Fazeley Canal	1

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

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 Drayton Bassett 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 Drayton Bassett compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Drayton Bassett and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Drayton Bassett is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Glascote	74
2	Belgrave	63
3	Castle	61
4	Bolehall	56
5	Kingsbury	46
6	Mercian	46
7	Fazeley	42
8	Bourne Vale	40
9	Wilnecote	37
10	Trinity	27
11	Hurley and Wood End	25

Which road in Drayton Bassett has the highest level of crime?

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