Crime Statistics for Hockley Heath, Solihull, Warwickshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hockley Heath in October 2024. There were a total of 17 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Vehicle Crime6
Violent Crime3
Shoplifting2
Criminal Damage Arson2
Burglary1
Other Theft1
Robbery1
Public Order1
All Crime17

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 Hockley Heath. 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 Hockley Heath

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Four Ashes (1.86 miles)58
Packwood Gullet (1.39 miles)28
Box Trees (1.39 miles)26
Illshaw Heath (1.76 miles)22
Norton Green (1.76 miles)21
Hockley Heath17
Lapworth (0.88 miles)7
Packwood (1.39 miles)6
Chessetts Wood (1.96 miles)6
Nuthurst (0.62 miles)6

6.14%
of Henley-in-Arden residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Hockley Heath?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Four Ashes51
Packwood Gullet9
Box Trees7
Norton Green7
Illshaw Heath6
Hockley Heath3
Lapworth2
Packwood1
Chessetts Wood1
Nuthurst1

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

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 Hockley Heath 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 Hockley Heath compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hockley Heath and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hockley Heath is ranked #2.

#WardScore
1Tanworth-in-Arden57
2Henley-in-Arden49
3Alvechurch South41
4Silhill36
5Shirley East35
6Kenilworth Abbey & Arden33
7Blythe22
8Shirley South20
9St Alphege18
10Dorridge and Hockley Heath17
11Knowle14

Which road in Hockley Heath has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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