Crime Statistics for Bentley, Walsall, Walsall, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bentley in September 2024. There were a total of 320 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bentley, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime117
Anti Social Behaviour50
Vehicle Crime40
Criminal Damage Arson32
Other Theft15
Public Order14
Shoplifting13
Burglary12
Other Crime9
Robbery8
Theft From The Person3
Bicycle Theft3
Possession Of Weapons2
Drugs2
All Crime320

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 Bentley. 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 Bentley

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Birchills (1.39 miles)666
Bentley320
Ashmore Lake (1.39 miles)310
Bescot (1.75 miles)306
Walsall6
Fallings Heath (1.24 miles)3
Leamore (1.39 miles)0
Pleck (0.88 miles)0
Lane Head (1.39 miles)0
Short Heath (1.39 miles)0

17.35%
of Bentley and Darlaston North residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Bentley?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Birchills241
Bentley117
Bescot117
Ashmore Lake94
Walsall4
Fallings Heath1
Leamore0
Pleck0
Lane Head0
Short Heath0

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

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 Bentley 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 Bentley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bentley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bentley is ranked #5.

#WardScore
1Bilston East82
2Pleck77
3St Matthew's76
4Willenhall South73
5Bentley and Darlaston North70
6Short Heath69
7Birchills Leamore69
8Bilston North68
9Darlaston South64
10Wednesbury North62
11Friar Park55

Which road in Bentley has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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