Crime Statistics for Spennells, Wyre Forest, Worcestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Spennells in September 2024. There were a total of 51 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 Spennells, 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	15
Shoplifting	9
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Vehicle Crime	5
Burglary	4
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Public Order	3
Other Theft	3
Other Crime	2
Drugs	1
All Crime	51

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 Spennells. 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 Spennells

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Kidderminster (1.76 miles)	271
Aggborough (0.88 miles)	213
Hoobrook (0.62 miles)	104
Stone (0.88 miles)	50
Spennells	40
Leapgate (1.39 miles)	17
Torton (1.24 miles)	12
Shenstone (1.39 miles)	4
Podmoor (1.75 miles)	4
Harvington (1.86 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Spennells?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Kidderminster	80
Aggborough	61
Hoobrook	58
Stone	16
Spennells	15
Leapgate	7
Torton	6
Shenstone	0
Podmoor	0
Harvington	0

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

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 Spennells 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 Spennells compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Spennells and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Spennells is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Hartlebury	74
2	Foley Park & Hoobrook	66
3	Blakebrook & Habberley South	65
4	Broadwaters	57
5	Offmore & Comberton	55
6	Mitton	51
7	Aggborough & Spennells	49
8	Wyre Forest Rural	47
9	Franche & Habberley North	33
10	Lovett and North Claines	25

Which road in Spennells has the highest level of crime?

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