Crime Statistics for Shelfield, Walsall, Walsall, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Shelfield in October 2024. There were a total of 122 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Shelfield, 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	43
Vehicle Crime	20
Anti Social Behaviour	15
Burglary	10
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Public Order	6
Other Theft	5
Shoplifting	4
Possession Of Weapons	3
Drugs	2
Robbery	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	122

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 Shelfield. 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 Shelfield

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Harden (1.39 miles)	416
Pelsall Wood (1.39 miles)	408
Goscote (0.88 miles)	259
Heath End (0.62 miles)	240
Rushall (0.62 miles)	139
Pelsall (0.88 miles)	128
Shelfield	122
High Heath	122
Walsall Wood (0.88 miles)	121
Holly Bank (1.39 miles)	119

Where are the most violent places near Shelfield?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Harden	129
Pelsall Wood	127
Goscote	107
Heath End	86
Pelsall	53
Rushall	45
Shelfield	43
High Heath	43
Walsall Wood	39
Holly Bank	35

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

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 Shelfield 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 Shelfield compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Blakenall	83
2	St Matthew's	76
3	Bloxwich East	74
4	Birchills Leamore	69
5	Essington	65
6	Bloxwich West	60
7	Rushall-Shelfield	47
8	Brownhills	46
9	Pelsall	45
10	Aldridge North and Walsall Wood	37
11	Aldridge Central and South	25

Which road in Shelfield has the highest level of crime?

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