Crime Statistics for Hodgehill, Birmingham, Birmingham, 2024

Crime statistics for Hodgehill, Birmingham

There were a total of 458 street level crime incidents in Hodgehill in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Hodgehill, 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 Crime203
Vehicle Crime36
Criminal Damage Arson36
Public Order29
Burglary28
Shoplifting28
Other Theft25
Anti Social Behaviour23
Robbery16
Drugs14
Possession Of Weapons10
Other Crime6
Theft From The Person4
All Crime458

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 Hodgehill. 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 Hodgehill

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Ward End (0.62 miles)533
Alum Rock (0.88 miles)502
Hodgehill458
Buckland End (1.24 miles)417
Colehall (1.24 miles)417
Washwood Heath (1.24 miles)412
Lea Hall (1.75 miles)401
Birches Green (1.39 miles)349
Rea (1.39 miles)338
Bromford (1.24 miles)270

35.74%
of Ward End residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Hodgehill?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Alum Rock240
Ward End232
Buckland End205
Colehall205
Hodgehill203
Lea Hall202
Washwood Heath188
Birches Green159
Rea143
Bromford131

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

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 Hodgehill 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 Hodgehill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hodgehill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Hodgehill is ranked #3.

#WardScore
1Shard End86
2Glebe Farm & Tile Cross75
3Ward End73
4Bromford & Hodge Hill71
5Yardley East63
6Yardley West & Stechford63
7Nechells62
8Alum Rock62
9South Yardley61
10Sheldon57
11Heartlands56

Which road in Hodgehill has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: February 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0