Crime Statistics for Parkfield, Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Parkfield in September 2024. There were a total of 231 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Parkfield, 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	118
Criminal Damage Arson	27
Public Order	19
Vehicle Crime	14
Other Theft	13
Burglary	11
Anti Social Behaviour	9
Shoplifting	4
Other Crime	4
Drugs	4
Robbery	4
Theft From The Person	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	231

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 Parkfield. 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 Parkfield

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Blakenhall (0.88 miles)	569
Monmore Green (0.88 miles)	459
Stow Lawn (1.39 miles)	338
Bilston (1.39 miles)	338
Ettingshall (0.62 miles)	277
Parkfield	231
Ettingshall Park (0.62 miles)	198
Lanesfield (0.62 miles)	198
Cinder Hill (1.24 miles)	170
Colton Hills (1.39 miles)	52

Where are the most violent places near Parkfield?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Blakenhall	321
Monmore Green	235
Stow Lawn	151
Bilston	128
Ettingshall	122
Parkfield	118
Ettingshall Park	79
Lanesfield	79
Cinder Hill	70
Colton Hills	26

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

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 Parkfield 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 Parkfield compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Parkfield and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Parkfield have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is St Peter's.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Peter's	72
2	Graiseley	65
3	Heath Town	65
4	Himley and Swindon	64
5	Ettingshall	64
6	Blakenhall	63
7	Park	62
8	Spring Vale	51
9	Sedgley	39
10	Merry Hill	25
11	Penn	22

Which road in Parkfield has the highest level of crime?

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