Crime Statistics for Southcrest, Redditch, Worcestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Southcrest in August 2024. There were a total of 110 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 Southcrest, 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 Crime38
Anti Social Behaviour20
Vehicle Crime14
Criminal Damage Arson11
Other Theft8
Shoplifting6
Public Order4
Possession Of Weapons3
Drugs2
Other Crime2
Robbery1
Theft From The Person1
All Crime110

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 Southcrest. 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 Southcrest

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Redditch (0.88 miles)273
Lakeside (1.39 miles)265
Enfield (1.24 miles)248
Lodge Park214
Ipsley (1.86 miles)180
Batchley (0.88 miles)135
Southcrest110
Greenlands (1.39 miles)98
Foxlydiate (1.39 miles)63
Webheath (1.24 miles)24

4.97%
of West (Redditch) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Southcrest?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Redditch99
Enfield98
Greenlands83
Lakeside82
Lodge Park77
Batchley56
Ipsley55
Southcrest38
Foxlydiate23
Webheath1

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

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 Southcrest 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 Southcrest compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Southcrest and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Southcrest is ranked #9.

#WardScore
1Central75
2Batchley & Brockhill60
3Greenlands59
4Abbey58
5Church Hill58
6Lodge Park47
7Winyates45
8Headless Cross and Oakenshaw39
9West29
10Crabbs Cross22
11Astwood Bank and Feckenham22

Which road in Southcrest has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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