Crime Statistics for Fordhouses, Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Fordhouses in October 2024. There were a total of 244 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime101
Shoplifting48
Vehicle Crime25
Anti Social Behaviour16
Other Crime15
Other Theft10
Criminal Damage Arson8
Burglary8
Public Order6
Theft From The Person4
Possession Of Weapons2
Drugs1
All Crime244

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 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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Old Fallings (1.39 miles)305
Bushbury (0.62 miles)213
Claregate (1.75 miles)188
Fordhouses127
Shropshire Union Canal (1.29 miles)109
Pendeford (1.39 miles)96
Bilbrook (1.86 miles)78
Lane Green (1.86 miles)78
Cross Green (1.24 miles)66
Brinsford (1.24 miles)33

15.25%
of Oxley residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Old Fallings210
Fordhouses101
Bushbury66
Shropshire Union Canal58
Claregate56
Cross Green48
Bilbrook40
Lane Green40
Pendeford39
Brinsford12

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.

#WardScore
1Bushbury South and Low Hill64
2Park62
3Fallings Park54
4Featherstone and Shareshill46
5Wednesfield North43
6Bilbrook40
7Bushbury North36
8Oxley30
9Tettenhall Regis28
10Codsall North23
11Codsall South13

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.

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