Crime Statistics for Walsall Wood, Walsall, Walsall, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Walsall Wood in September 2024. There were a total of 224 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 Walsall 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	82
Shoplifting	64
Criminal Damage Arson	22
Anti Social Behaviour	16
Other Theft	12
Burglary	10
Vehicle Crime	7
Public Order	6
Other Crime	3
Robbery	2
All Crime	224

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 Walsall 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 Walsall Wood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Shire Oak (0.88 miles)	349
Walsall Wood	217
Heath End (1.39 miles)	214
Rushall (1.39 miles)	197
Brownhills (1.24 miles)	170
High Heath (0.88 miles)	170
Pelsall (1.24 miles)	142
Holly Bank	127
Shelfield (0.88 miles)	108
Highbridge (1.39 miles)	73

Where are the most violent places near Walsall Wood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Shire Oak	194
Heath End	121
Rushall	90
Walsall Wood	82
High Heath	81
Pelsall	58
Brownhills	53
Shelfield	53
Holly Bank	46
Highbridge	29

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Walsall 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 Walsall 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 Walsall Wood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Walsall Wood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Walsall Wood is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Blakenall	83
2	St Matthew's	76
3	Bloxwich East	74
4	Birchills Leamore	69
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 Walsall Wood has the highest level of crime?

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