Crime Statistics for Bournville, Birmingham, Birmingham, 2024

Crime statistics for Bournville, Birmingham

There were a total of 240 street level crime incidents in Bournville in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bournville, 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 Crime101
Criminal Damage Arson24
Vehicle Crime24
Public Order16
Burglary16
Other Theft16
Anti Social Behaviour12
Shoplifting10
Drugs7
Other Crime4
Robbery3
Possession Of Weapons3
Bicycle Theft3
Theft From The Person1
All Crime240

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Bournville. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Bournville

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Moor Green (1.39 miles)392
Bournbrook (0.62 miles)352
Shenley Fields (1.24 miles)323
Ten Acres313
Stirchley313
Alcester Lane’s End (1.96 miles)294
Lodge Hill (1.39 miles)273
Griffins Hill (0.62 miles)247
Bartley Green (1.96 miles)240
Bournville240

23.56%
of Weoley & Selly Oak residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Bournville?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Shenley Fields142
Bournbrook130
Lodge Hill130
Alcester Lane’s End128
Moor Green122
Ten Acres108
Stirchley108
Bartley Green106
Griffins Hill102
Bournville101

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

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 Bournville 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 Bournville compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1King's Norton South85
2Allens Cross78
3Druids Heath & Monyhull78
4Stirchley75
5Bartley Green74
6King's Norton North72
7Weoley & Selly Oak71
8Northfield68
9Bournville & Cotteridge60
10Bournbrook & Selly Park56
11Belbroughton & Romsley43

Which road in Bournville has the highest level of crime?

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

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