Crime Statistics for Ladywood, Birmingham, Birmingham, 2024

Crime statistics for Ladywood, Birmingham

There were a total of 697 street level crime incidents in Ladywood in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Ladywood, 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 Crime238
Other Theft97
Vehicle Crime79
Criminal Damage Arson43
Anti Social Behaviour42
Theft From The Person41
Burglary38
Public Order34
Robbery21
Drugs20
Shoplifting15
Possession Of Weapons13
Bicycle Theft9
Other Crime7
All Crime697

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Netchells Green (1.96 miles)1489
Bordesley (1.86 miles)1475
Highgate (1.39 miles)831
Gib Heath (1.24 miles)779
Ladywood697
Rotton Park (0.88 miles)630
Sparkbrook (2.24 miles)583
Balsall Heath (1.75 miles)420
Bearwood (1.86 miles)330
Edgbaston (1.24 miles)324

36.95%
of Edgbaston residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Ladywood?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Bordesley390
Netchells Green375
Highgate299
Gib Heath256
Sparkbrook250
Rotton Park244
Ladywood238
Balsall Heath177
Bearwood114
Edgbaston93

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

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 Ladywood 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 Ladywood compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Bordesley & Highgate80
2Lozells79
3Soho & Jewellery Quarter76
4North Edgbaston75
5Balsall Heath West71
6Ladywood70
7Soho and Victoria63
8Harborne62
9Edgbaston59
10Bournbrook & Selly Park56
11Abbey55

Which road in Ladywood has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
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