Crime Statistics for Old Fallings, Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Old Fallings in October 2024. There were a total of 476 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 Old Fallings, 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	210
Shoplifting	70
Vehicle Crime	31
Public Order	30
Other Theft	29
Anti Social Behaviour	27
Burglary	21
Criminal Damage Arson	15
Other Crime	13
Drugs	11
Possession Of Weapons	8
Robbery	6
Theft From The Person	3
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	476

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 Old Fallings. 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 Old Fallings

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Springfield (1.39 miles)	765
Newbolds (0.88 miles)	714
Heath Town (1.24 miles)	685
Shropshire Union Canal (1.02 miles)	561
Park Village (0.62 miles)	452
Wednesfield (1.39 miles)	348
Old Fallings	305
Dunstall Hill (1.39 miles)	272
Bushbury (1.24 miles)	213
Fordhouses (1.39 miles)	127

Where are the most violent places near Old Fallings?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Old Fallings 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
Wednesfield	148
Fordhouses	101
Bushbury	66

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

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 Old Fallings 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 Old Fallings compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Old Fallings and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Old Fallings is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	East Park	73
2	St Peter's	72
3	Heath Town	65
4	Bushbury South and Low Hill	64
5	Park	62
6	Fallings Park	54
7	Wednesfield South	52
8	Wednesfield North	43
9	Bushbury North	36
10	Oxley	30
11	Tettenhall Regis	28

Which road in Old Fallings has the highest level of crime?

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