Crime Statistics for Harden, Walsall, Walsall, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Harden in October 2024. There were a total of 416 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 Harden, 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	129
Shoplifting	85
Criminal Damage Arson	47
Anti Social Behaviour	43
Vehicle Crime	27
Other Theft	25
Burglary	14
Other Crime	14
Public Order	12
Possession Of Weapons	7
Robbery	5
Drugs	4
Theft From The Person	2
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	416

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 Harden. 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 Harden

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Coal Pool	649
Bloxwich (1.39 miles)	475
Blakenall Heath	469
Harden	416
Pelsall Wood	408
Goscote (0.62 miles)	259
Heath End (0.88 miles)	240
Rushall (1.24 miles)	139
Shelfield (1.39 miles)	122
High Heath (1.39 miles)	122

Where are the most violent places near Harden?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Coal Pool	211
Bloxwich	182
Blakenall Heath	143
Harden	129
Pelsall Wood	127
Goscote	107
Heath End	86
Rushall	45
Shelfield	43
High Heath	43

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

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 Harden 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 Harden compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Harden and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Harden 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	Short Heath	69
6	Birchills Leamore	69
7	Essington	65
8	Bloxwich West	60
9	Rushall-Shelfield	47
10	Pelsall	45
11	Aldridge Central and South	25

Which road in Harden has the highest level of crime?

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