Crime Statistics for Batchley, Redditch, Worcestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Batchley in September 2024. There were a total of 147 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Batchley, 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	56
Anti Social Behaviour	32
Vehicle Crime	12
Shoplifting	10
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Public Order	8
Other Theft	8
Other Crime	5
Bicycle Theft	4
Possession Of Weapons	2
Burglary	2
All Crime	147

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 Batchley. 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 Batchley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Enfield (0.88 miles)	446
Lodge Park (1.39 miles)	319
Redditch (1.24 miles)	273
Lakeside (1.86 miles)	204
Batchley	135
Greenlands (2.24 miles)	114
Southcrest (0.88 miles)	96
Foxlydiate	34
Webheath (0.88 miles)	32
Tardebigge (2.24 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Batchley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Enfield	180
Lodge Park	102
Lakeside	94
Redditch	91
Batchley	56
Greenlands	45
Southcrest	32
Foxlydiate	10
Webheath	4
Tardebigge	0

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

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 Batchley 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 Batchley compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Central	75
2	Batchley & Brockhill	60
3	Greenlands	59
4	Abbey	58
5	Church Hill	58
6	Tardebigge	55
7	Lodge Park	47
8	Headless Cross and Oakenshaw	39
9	West	29
10	Crabbs Cross	22
11	Astwood Bank and Feckenham	22

Which road in Batchley has the highest level of crime?

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