Crime Statistics for Four Ashes, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Four Ashes in October 2024. There were a total of 6 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Drugs, followed by Public Order.

Crime Category	Incidents
Drugs	2
Public Order	1
Other Crime	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Violent Crime	1
All Crime	6

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 Four Ashes. 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 Four Ashes

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Cross Green (1.86 miles)	66
Brinsford (1.86 miles)	33
Shareshill (2.24 miles)	23
Horsebrook (2.24 miles)	15
Brewood (1.86 miles)	8
Little Saredon (1.96 miles)	7
Four Ashes	6
Crateford (0.88 miles)	4
Lower Green (0.88 miles)	4
Calf Heath (1.24 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Four Ashes?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Cross Green	48
Shareshill	14
Brinsford	12
Little Saredon	4
Horsebrook	3
Brewood	3
Crateford	2
Four Ashes	1
Lower Green	1
Calf Heath	1

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

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 Four Ashes 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 Four Ashes compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Four Ashes and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Four Ashes is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Huntington and Hatherton	49
2	Featherstone and Shareshill	46
3	Wheaton Aston, Bishopswood and Lapley	45
4	Bilbrook	40
5	Bushbury North	36
6	Cheslyn Hay North and Saredon	33
7	Penkridge South East	30
8	Oxley	30
9	Brewood and Coven	23
10	Codsall North	23
11	Cheslyn Hay South	19

Which road in Four Ashes has the highest level of crime?

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