Crime Statistics for Essington, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Essington in October 2024. There were a total of 94 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Essington, 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	44
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Anti Social Behaviour	9
Vehicle Crime	8
Public Order	6
Other Theft	5
Burglary	4
Robbery	2
Drugs	2
Theft From The Person	1
Shoplifting	1
All Crime	94

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 Essington. 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 Essington

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bloxwich (1.96 miles)	475
Ashmore Park (1.24 miles)	354
Wallington Heath (1.96 miles)	346
Dudley’s Fields (1.75 miles)	244
New Invention (1.39 miles)	227
Essington	94
Springhill (0.88 miles)	24
Featherstone (1.75 miles)	23
Laney Green (1.86 miles)	10
Warstone (1.39 miles)	10

Where are the most violent places near Essington?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bloxwich	182
Ashmore Park	173
New Invention	139
Wallington Heath	124
Dudley’s Fields	80
Essington	44
Featherstone	13
Springhill	11
Warstone	2
Laney Green	1

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

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 Essington 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 Essington compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Essington and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Essington is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Willenhall South	73
2	Short Heath	69
3	Birchills Leamore	69
4	Essington	65
5	Bloxwich West	60
6	Willenhall North	58
7	Fallings Park	54
8	Wednesfield South	52
9	Featherstone and Shareshill	46
10	Wednesfield North	43
11	Cheslyn Hay South	19

Which road in Essington has the highest level of crime?

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