Crime Statistics for Cole, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cole in October 2024. There were a total of 86 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Cole, 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	24
Public Order	13
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Shoplifting	10
Vehicle Crime	9
Burglary	6
Possession Of Weapons	5
Other Theft	3
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Robbery	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	86

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Warstock (0.92 miles)	393
Billesley (1.49 miles)	309
Hasluck’s Green (0.26 miles)	90
Cole	59
Hollywood (1.14 miles)	56
Shirley Heath (0.92 miles)	52
Drakes Cross (1.49 miles)	52
Trueman’s Heath (0.61 miles)	51
Major’s Green (0.47 miles)	42
Stratford-upon-Avon Canal (1.42 miles)	34

Where are the most violent places near Cole?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Warstock	144
Billesley	111
Hasluck’s Green	28
Trueman’s Heath	28
Cole	24
Shirley Heath	19
Major’s Green	16
Hollywood	15
Drakes Cross	12
Stratford-upon-Avon Canal	12

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

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 Cole 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 Cole compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Druids Heath & Monyhull	78
2	Highter's Heath	67
3	Wythall East	58
4	Shirley West	56
5	Hall Green South	51
6	Wythall West	50
7	Drakes Cross	46
8	Hollywood	37
9	Shirley East	35
10	Blythe	22
11	Shirley South	20

Which road in Cole has the highest level of crime?

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