Crime Statistics for Coal Pool, Walsall, Walsall, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Coal Pool in October 2024. There were a total of 649 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 Coal Pool, 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	211
Shoplifting	143
Anti Social Behaviour	73
Criminal Damage Arson	51
Other Theft	35
Vehicle Crime	31
Public Order	25
Burglary	16
Other Crime	15
Robbery	15
Drugs	15
Possession Of Weapons	10
Theft From The Person	5
Bicycle Theft	4
All Crime	649

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 Coal Pool. 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 Coal Pool

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

Location	Crime Incidents
The Chuckery (1.39 miles)	799
Walsall (1.24 miles)	740
Birchills (0.88 miles)	683
Coal Pool	649
Blakenall Heath (0.88 miles)	469
Harden	416
Leamore	323
Goscote (0.88 miles)	259
Heath End (1.39 miles)	240
Rushall (1.39 miles)	139

Where are the most violent places near Coal Pool?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
The Chuckery	326
Walsall	271
Birchills	233
Coal Pool	211
Blakenall Heath	143
Harden	129
Goscote	107
Leamore	94
Heath End	86
Rushall	45

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

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 Coal Pool 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 Coal Pool compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Coal Pool and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Coal Pool have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Aldridge Central and South.

#	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	Bloxwich West	60
9	Palfrey	59
10	Rushall-Shelfield	47
11	Aldridge Central and South	25

Which road in Coal Pool has the highest level of crime?

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