Crime Statistics for Broadwaters, Wyre Forest, Worcestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Broadwaters in August 2024. There were a total of 157 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 Broadwaters, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime65
Anti Social Behaviour38
Public Order11
Criminal Damage Arson10
Other Theft7
Shoplifting7
Vehicle Crime6
Burglary5
Drugs4
Other Crime3
Theft From The Person1
All Crime157

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Broadwaters. 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 Broadwaters

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Kidderminster (1.75 miles)338
Greenhill (0.62 miles)325
Franche (1.24 miles)252
Aggborough (1.96 miles)213
Broadwaters157
Stone (1.96 miles)41
Cookley (1.24 miles)21
Drakelow (1.75 miles)7
Blakeshall (1.96 miles)6
Blakedown (1.86 miles)5

3.26%
of Wyre Forest Rural residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Broadwaters?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Greenhill99
Kidderminster96
Franche75
Broadwaters65
Aggborough61
Stone19
Cookley14
Blakeshall2
Drakelow1
Blakedown1

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

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 Broadwaters 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 Broadwaters compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Foley Park & Hoobrook66
2Blakebrook & Habberley South65
3Broadwaters57
4Offmore & Comberton55
5Mitton51
6Wribbenhall & Arley49
7Aggborough & Spennells49
8Wyre Forest Rural47
9Kinver39
10Franche & Habberley North33
11Hagley West18

Which road in Broadwaters has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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