Crime Statistics for Catshill, Walsall, Walsall, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Catshill in September 2024. There were a total of 205 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 Catshill, 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 Crime60
Shoplifting51
Anti Social Behaviour37
Criminal Damage Arson23
Vehicle Crime6
Burglary5
Other Theft5
Public Order4
Other Crime4
Bicycle Theft3
Possession Of Weapons3
Robbery3
Theft From The Person1
All Crime205

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 Catshill. 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 Catshill

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Shire Oak (0.62 miles)349
Walsall Wood (1.39 miles)217
Catshill205
Brownhills (0.62 miles)170
Rushall Canal (1.25 miles)142
Springhill (0.62 miles)133
Holly Bank (1.24 miles)127
Chasetown (1.86 miles)117
Hammerwich (1.39 miles)42
Stonnall (1.76 miles)20

4.4%
of Aldridge North and Walsall Wood residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Catshill?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Shire Oak194
Walsall Wood82
Catshill60
Chasetown56
Brownhills53
Rushall Canal52
Holly Bank46
Springhill39
Hammerwich21
Stonnall7

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

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 Catshill 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 Catshill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Bloxwich East74
2Chasetown55
3Norton Canes49
4Rushall-Shelfield47
5Brownhills46
6Pelsall45
7Aldridge North and Walsall Wood37
8Shenstone32
9Boney Hay & Central29
10Chase Terrace24
11Summerfield & All Saints22

Which road in Catshill has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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