Crime Statistics for Sandwell, West Midlands, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sandwell in October 2024. There were a total of 461 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 Sandwell, 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	213
Vehicle Crime	45
Criminal Damage Arson	39
Anti Social Behaviour	33
Public Order	27
Other Theft	19
Shoplifting	19
Burglary	17
Drugs	15
Possession Of Weapons	12
Robbery	10
Other Crime	6
Theft From The Person	4
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	461

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 Sandwell. 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 Sandwell

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Rotton Park (1.75 miles)	735
Grand Union Canal (1.25 miles)	596
Mayer’s Green (1.39 miles)	587
Tat Bank (1.86 miles)	523
Sandwell	461
Handsworth (0.88 miles)	419
Brown’s Green (1.75 miles)	414
Bearwood (1.86 miles)	348
Langley (1.96 miles)	337
Londonderry (1.75 miles)	332

Where are the most violent places near Sandwell?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tat Bank	312
Grand Union Canal	299
Rotton Park	284
Mayer’s Green	257
Bearwood	224
Sandwell	213
Brown’s Green	169
Handsworth	164
Langley	161
Londonderry	146

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

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 Sandwell 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 Sandwell compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Sandwell and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Sandwell have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Handsworth.

#	Ward	Score
1	Handsworth	83
2	Holyhead	76
3	North Edgbaston	75
4	West Bromwich Central	74
5	Handsworth Wood	66
6	Soho and Victoria	63
7	Abbey	55
8	Bristnall	54
9	Oldbury	54
10	St Pauls	54
11	Smethwick	52

Which road in Sandwell has the highest level of crime?

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