Crime Statistics for Fordhouses, Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Fordhouses in September 2024. There were a total of 202 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 Fordhouses, 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	80
Shoplifting	40
Vehicle Crime	18
Other Theft	17
Burglary	12
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Anti Social Behaviour	9
Public Order	5
Drugs	3
Other Crime	3
Robbery	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	202

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 Fordhouses. 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 Fordhouses

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Old Fallings (1.39 miles)	331
Bushbury (0.62 miles)	210
Fordhouses	202
Shropshire Union Canal (1.29 miles)	192
Claregate (1.75 miles)	148
Pendeford (1.39 miles)	111
Bilbrook (1.86 miles)	63
Lane Green (1.86 miles)	63
Brinsford (1.24 miles)	60
Cross Green (1.24 miles)	35

Where are the most violent places near Fordhouses?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Old Fallings	138
Shropshire Union Canal	91
Bushbury	86
Fordhouses	80
Claregate	53
Pendeford	45
Bilbrook	28
Lane Green	28
Brinsford	20
Cross Green	10

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

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 Fordhouses 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 Fordhouses compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Fordhouses and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Fordhouses is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bushbury South and Low Hill	64
2	Park	62
3	Fallings Park	54
4	Featherstone and Shareshill	46
5	Wednesfield North	43
6	Bilbrook	40
7	Bushbury North	36
8	Oxley	30
9	Tettenhall Regis	28
10	Codsall North	23
11	Codsall South	13

Which road in Fordhouses has the highest level of crime?

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