Crime Statistics for Rubery, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Rubery in September 2024. There were a total of 238 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Rubery, 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	85
Shoplifting	44
Anti Social Behaviour	22
Other Theft	20
Criminal Damage Arson	18
Vehicle Crime	14
Public Order	13
Possession Of Weapons	8
Burglary	6
Other Crime	4
Drugs	2
Robbery	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	238

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 Rubery. 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 Rubery

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

Location	Crime Incidents
New Frankley	307
Rubery	238
Longbridge	202
Cofton Common	196
Rednal (0.88 miles)	150
Frankley Hill (1.39 miles)	143
Frankley (1.86 miles)	103
Eachway (0.88 miles)	71
Cofton Hackett (1.39 miles)	31
Chapman’s Hill (1.86 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Rubery?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
New Frankley	120
Rednal	91
Longbridge	89
Cofton Common	89
Rubery	85
Frankley Hill	77
Frankley	53
Eachway	20
Cofton Hackett	11
Chapman’s Hill	0

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

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 Rubery 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 Rubery compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Frankley Great Park	82
2	Rubery & Rednal	74
3	Northfield	68
4	Longbridge & West Heath	67
5	Catshill North	64
6	Cofton	58
7	Rubery North	52
8	Rubery South	51
9	Barnt Green & Hopwood	50
10	Belbroughton & Romsley	43
11	Marlbrook	31

Which road in Rubery has the highest level of crime?

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