Crime Statistics for Pelsall Wood, Walsall, Walsall, 2024

There were a total of 200 street level crime incidents in Pelsall Wood in June 2024. 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 Pelsall Wood, 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 Crime79
Anti Social Behaviour42
Criminal Damage Arson19
Public Order12
Shoplifting10
Other Theft8
Vehicle Crime7
Robbery7
Drugs5
Other Crime4
Burglary4
Possession Of Weapons2
Bicycle Theft1
All Crime200

Map of street level crime incidents in June 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Pelsall Wood. 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 Pelsall Wood

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Wallington Heath (1.39 miles)661
Harden548
Little Bloxwich386
Bloxwich (1.39 miles)373
Pelsall283
Fishley281
Heath End (0.88 miles)234
Pelsall Wood200
Highbridge (0.88 miles)59
Little Wyrley (1.24 miles)23

6.92%
of Bloxwich East residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Pelsall Wood?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Harden276
Pelsall256
Wallington Heath238
Little Bloxwich180
Bloxwich131
Fishley104
Heath End102
Pelsall Wood79
Highbridge24
Little Wyrley13

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

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 Pelsall Wood 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 Pelsall Wood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Pelsall Wood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Pelsall Wood is ranked #3.

#WardScore
1Blakenall83
2St Matthew's76
3Bloxwich East74
4Short Heath69
5Birchills Leamore69
6Essington65
7Bloxwich West60
8Willenhall North58
9Rushall-Shelfield47
10Pelsall45
11Great Wyrley Landywood39

Which road in Pelsall Wood has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: June 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0



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