Crime Statistics for Blakenall Heath, Walsall, Walsall, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Blakenall Heath in October 2024. There were a total of 469 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Blakenall Heath, 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	143
Shoplifting	122
Anti Social Behaviour	46
Criminal Damage Arson	42
Other Theft	22
Vehicle Crime	19
Other Crime	19
Public Order	18
Burglary	15
Possession Of Weapons	8
Drugs	7
Robbery	5
Bicycle Theft	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	469

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 Blakenall Heath. 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 Blakenall Heath

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Coal Pool (0.88 miles)	649
Fishley	536
Bloxwich (0.88 miles)	475
Blakenall Heath	469
Harden	416
Wallington Heath (0.88 miles)	346
Leamore (0.88 miles)	323
Little Bloxwich	273
Goscote (1.24 miles)	259
Dudley’s Fields (1.24 miles)	244

Where are the most violent places near Blakenall Heath?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Fishley	381
Coal Pool	211
Bloxwich	182
Blakenall Heath	143
Harden	129
Wallington Heath	124
Goscote	107
Little Bloxwich	96
Leamore	94
Dudley’s Fields	80

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

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 Blakenall Heath 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 Blakenall Heath compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Blakenall	83
2	Pleck	77
3	St Matthew's	76
4	Bloxwich East	74
5	Willenhall South	73
6	Short Heath	69
7	Birchills Leamore	69
8	Essington	65
9	Bloxwich West	60
10	Willenhall North	58
11	Rushall-Shelfield	47

Which road in Blakenall Heath has the highest level of crime?

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