Crime Statistics for Ashmore Park, Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ashmore Park in October 2024. There were a total of 388 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Ashmore Park, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime173
Criminal Damage Arson46
Anti Social Behaviour40
Vehicle Crime35
Shoplifting23
Public Order20
Other Theft16
Burglary14
Theft From The Person6
Other Crime4
Possession Of Weapons4
Robbery3
Drugs2
Bicycle Theft2
All Crime388

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 Ashmore Park. 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 Ashmore Park

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Ashmore Park354
Wednesfield (1.39 miles)348
Wallington Heath (1.96 miles)346
Leamore (1.96 miles)323
Lane Head (0.88 miles)318
Short Heath (0.88 miles)318
Ashmore Lake (1.24 miles)258
Dudley’s Fields (1.24 miles)244
New Invention (0.62 miles)227
Essington (1.24 miles)94

14.11%
of Wednesfield South residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Ashmore Park?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Ashmore Park173
Wednesfield148
New Invention139
Wallington Heath124
Lane Head100
Short Heath100
Leamore94
Ashmore Lake81
Dudley’s Fields80
Essington44

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

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 Ashmore Park 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 Ashmore Park compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Bilston East82
2Willenhall South73
3East Park73
4Short Heath69
5Bilston North68
6Essington65
7Bloxwich West60
8Willenhall North58
9Fallings Park54
10Wednesfield South52
11Wednesfield North43

Which road in Ashmore Park has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
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