Crime Statistics for Newbolds, Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Newbolds in October 2024. There were a total of 776 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 Newbolds, 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	313
Shoplifting	78
Other Theft	63
Anti Social Behaviour	56
Vehicle Crime	56
Criminal Damage Arson	54
Burglary	44
Public Order	44
Possession Of Weapons	24
Drugs	18
Other Crime	8
Theft From The Person	8
Robbery	8
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	776

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 Newbolds. 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 Newbolds

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Springfield (1.39 miles)	765
Newbolds	714
Heath Town (0.88 miles)	685
Shropshire Union Canal (1.43 miles)	561
Park Village (0.62 miles)	452
Moseley (1.24 miles)	418
Wednesfield (0.62 miles)	348
Old Fallings (0.88 miles)	305
Portobello (1.75 miles)	289
Dunstall Hill (1.86 miles)	272

Where are the most violent places near Newbolds?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Park Village	348
Newbolds	313
Springfield	282
Heath Town	230
Old Fallings	210
Shropshire Union Canal	206
Dunstall Hill	191
Moseley	162
Wednesfield	148
Portobello	90

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

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 Newbolds 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 Newbolds compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	East Park	73
2	St Peter's	72
3	Heath Town	65
4	Bushbury South and Low Hill	64
5	Ettingshall	64
6	Blakenhall	63
7	Park	62
8	Fallings Park	54
9	Wednesfield South	52
10	Wednesfield North	43
11	Bushbury North	36

Which road in Newbolds has the highest level of crime?

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