Crime Statistics for Drakelow, Wyre Forest, Worcestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Drakelow in August 2024. There were a total of 5 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Burglary, followed by Other Theft.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Burglary2
Other Theft2
Violent Crime1
All Crime5

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 Drakelow. 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 Drakelow

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Greenhill (2.24 miles)325
Franche (1.24 miles)252
Broadwaters (1.75 miles)157
Cookley (1.24 miles)21
Stour (2.3 miles)19
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal (2.46 miles)15
Caunsall (1.96 miles)12
Drakelow7
Blakeshall (0.88 miles)6
Shatterford (1.96 miles)0

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 Drakelow?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Greenhill99
Franche75
Broadwaters65
Cookley14
Stour6
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal5
Caunsall5
Blakeshall2
Drakelow1
Shatterford0

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

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 Drakelow 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 Drakelow compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Drakelow and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Drakelow is ranked #7.

#WardScore
1Foley Park & Hoobrook66
2Blakebrook & Habberley South65
3Broadwaters57
4Offmore & Comberton55
5Wribbenhall & Arley49
6Aggborough & Spennells49
7Wyre Forest Rural47
8Kinver39
9Franche & Habberley North33
10Bewdley & Rock32
11Alveley and Claverley19

Which road in Drakelow has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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