Crime Statistics for Bilston, Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bilston in October 2024. There were a total of 319 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bilston, 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	101
Anti Social Behaviour	35
Shoplifting	34
Burglary	29
Other Theft	28
Vehicle Crime	25
Criminal Damage Arson	21
Public Order	18
Other Crime	12
Possession Of Weapons	9
Drugs	4
Bicycle Theft	1
Robbery	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	319

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 Bilston. 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 Bilston

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Stow Lawn	638
Monmore Green (0.62 miles)	490
Moseley (0.88 miles)	418
Lower Bradley (1.39 miles)	347
Bilston	319
Portobello (0.88 miles)	289
Ettingshall (0.88 miles)	251
Parkfield (1.39 miles)	234
Ettingshall Park (1.75 miles)	207
Lanesfield (1.75 miles)	207

Where are the most violent places near Bilston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Stow Lawn	404
Monmore Green	225
Moseley	162
Parkfield	119
Ettingshall	111
Lower Bradley	108
Bilston	101
Portobello	90
Ettingshall Park	77
Lanesfield	77

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

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 Bilston 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 Bilston compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bilston and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bilston is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bilston East	82
2	East Park	73
3	St Peter's	72
4	Bilston North	68
5	Graiseley	65
6	Heath Town	65
7	Darlaston South	64
8	Ettingshall	64
9	Blakenhall	63
10	Wednesfield South	52
11	Spring Vale	51

Which road in Bilston has the highest level of crime?

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