Crime Statistics for Pelsall, Walsall, Walsall, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Pelsall in September 2024. There were a total of 142 incidents. 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, 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	58
Anti Social Behaviour	18
Criminal Damage Arson	15
Vehicle Crime	13
Burglary	13
Shoplifting	7
Other Theft	6
Public Order	5
Possession Of Weapons	4
Bicycle Theft	1
Drugs	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	142

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 Pelsall. 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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Little Bloxwich	261
Fishley	261
Goscote (1.24 miles)	235
Walsall Wood (1.24 miles)	217
Heath End (0.62 miles)	214
Pelsall Wood	213
High Heath (0.88 miles)	170
Pelsall	142
Shelfield (0.88 miles)	108
Highbridge	73

Where are the most violent places near Pelsall?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Goscote	133
Heath End	121
Little Bloxwich	99
Fishley	99
Walsall Wood	82
Pelsall Wood	81
High Heath	81
Pelsall	58
Shelfield	53
Highbridge	29

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

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 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 compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Pelsall and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Pelsall is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Blakenall	83
2	Bloxwich East	74
3	Birchills Leamore	69
4	Essington	65
5	Bloxwich West	60
6	Rushall-Shelfield	47
7	Brownhills	46
8	Pelsall	45
9	Great Wyrley Landywood	39
10	Aldridge North and Walsall Wood	37
11	Aldridge Central and South	25

Which road in Pelsall has the highest level of crime?

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