Crime Statistics for Rushall, Walsall, Walsall, 2024

There were a total of 130 street level crime incidents in Rushall in March 2024. 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 Rushall, 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	42
Anti Social Behaviour	17
Criminal Damage Arson	15
Vehicle Crime	14
Public Order	8
Other Theft	8
Shoplifting	7
Burglary	6
Other Crime	4
Possession Of Weapons	3
Drugs	3
Robbery	3
All Crime	130

Map of street level crime incidents in March 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Coal Pool (1.39 miles)	501
Harden (1.24 miles)	266
Goscote	210
Heath End (0.88 miles)	202
Pelsall (1.39 miles)	147
Rushall	130
Shelfield (0.62 miles)	124
High Heath (0.62 miles)	124
Walsall Wood (1.39 miles)	115
Aldridge (1.39 miles)	77

Where are the most violent places near Rushall?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Coal Pool	195
Harden	123
Goscote	91
Heath End	84
Pelsall	64
Rushall	42
Shelfield	40
High Heath	40
Walsall Wood	37
Aldridge	19

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

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 Rushall 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 Rushall compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Blakenall	83
2	Pleck	77
3	St Matthew's	76
4	Bloxwich East	74
5	Birchills Leamore	69
6	Bloxwich West	60
7	Palfrey	59
8	Rushall-Shelfield	47
9	Pelsall	45
10	Aldridge North and Walsall Wood	37
11	Aldridge Central and South	25

Which road in Rushall has the highest level of crime?

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