Crime Statistics for Carpenter’s Hill, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Carpenter’s Hill in September 2024. There were a total of 135 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 Carpenter’s Hill, 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	39
Criminal Damage Arson	20
Shoplifting	20
Anti Social Behaviour	16
Public Order	12
Drugs	8
Vehicle Crime	8
Bicycle Theft	8
Burglary	4
All Crime	135

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 Carpenter’s Hill. 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 Carpenter’s Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Church Hill (1.39 miles)	158
Moons Moat (1.24 miles)	128
Beoley (0.88 miles)	69
Carpenter’s Hill	67
Holt End (0.62 miles)	64
Pink Green (0.88 miles)	30
Aspley Heath (1.24 miles)	10
Baylis Green (0.62 miles)	6
Heath Green (0.62 miles)	1
Portway (1.39 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Carpenter’s Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Church Hill	49
Moons Moat	40
Carpenter’s Hill	39
Beoley	24
Holt End	20
Pink Green	6
Aspley Heath	0
Baylis Green	0
Heath Green	0
Portway	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Carpenter’s Hill?

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 Carpenter’s Hill 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 Carpenter’s Hill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Carpenter’s Hill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Carpenter’s Hill is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Central	75
2	Batchley & Brockhill	60
3	Abbey	58
4	Church Hill	58
5	Tanworth-in-Arden	57
6	Lodge Park	47
7	Winyates	45
8	Matchborough	44
9	Alvechurch Village	43
10	Alvechurch South	41
11	Headless Cross and Oakenshaw	39

Which road in Carpenter’s Hill has the highest level of crime?

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