Crime Statistics for Astwood Bank, Redditch, Worcestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Astwood Bank in September 2024. There were a total of 20 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	5
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Violent Crime	3
Vehicle Crime	3
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Burglary	1
Other Crime	1
Other Theft	1
All Crime	20

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 Astwood Bank. 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 Astwood Bank

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Greenlands (1.96 miles)	114
Green Lane (1.75 miles)	82
Littlewood Green (1.86 miles)	40
Spernall (2.48 miles)	34
Dagtail End (0.88 miles)	25
Astwood Bank	20
Sambourne (0.88 miles)	5
Edgiock (1.39 miles)	1
Shurnock (1.75 miles)	0
Ham Green (1.96 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Astwood Bank?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Greenlands	45
Green Lane	35
Littlewood Green	34
Spernall	31
Dagtail End	5
Astwood Bank	3
Sambourne	1
Edgiock	0
Shurnock	0
Ham Green	0

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

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 Astwood Bank 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 Astwood Bank compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Astwood Bank and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Astwood Bank is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Central	75
2	Greenlands	59
3	Lodge Park	47
4	Matchborough	44
5	Headless Cross and Oakenshaw	39
6	Kinwarton	34
7	West	29
8	Crabbs Cross	22
9	Astwood Bank and Feckenham	22
10	Inkberrow	18

Which road in Astwood Bank has the highest level of crime?

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