Crime Statistics for Bentley, Walsall, Walsall, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bentley in October 2024. There were a total of 671 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	237
Anti Social Behaviour	124
Criminal Damage Arson	94
Vehicle Crime	50
Shoplifting	42
Public Order	24
Other Theft	20
Other Crime	18
Burglary	18
Possession Of Weapons	14
Drugs	12
Robbery	8
Bicycle Theft	8
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	671

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 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.

Location	Crime Incidents
Walsall	740
Birchills (1.39 miles)	683
Bentley	631
Pleck (0.88 miles)	497
Fallings Heath (1.24 miles)	413
Bescot (1.75 miles)	344
Leamore (1.39 miles)	323
Lane Head (1.39 miles)	318
Short Heath (1.39 miles)	318
Ashmore Lake (1.39 miles)	258

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.

Location	Violent Incidents
Walsall	271
Bentley	237
Birchills	233
Pleck	213
Bescot	162
Fallings Heath	147
Lane Head	100
Short Heath	100
Leamore	94
Ashmore Lake	81

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.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bilston East	82
2	Pleck	77
3	St Matthew's	76
4	Willenhall South	73
5	Bentley and Darlaston North	70
6	Short Heath	69
7	Birchills Leamore	69
8	Bilston North	68
9	Darlaston South	64
10	Wednesbury North	62
11	Friar Park	55

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.