Crime Statistics for Lea Hall, Birmingham, Birmingham, 2024

There were a total of 401 street level crime incidents in Lea Hall 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 Lea Hall, 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	202
Criminal Damage Arson	33
Public Order	29
Vehicle Crime	27
Burglary	25
Other Theft	23
Anti Social Behaviour	19
Robbery	12
Shoplifting	10
Drugs	9
Other Crime	8
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	401

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 Lea Hall. 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 Lea Hall

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

Location	Crime Incidents
South Yardley (1.75 miles)	558
Stockfield (1.75 miles)	558
Shard End (1.39 miles)	436
Buckland End (1.24 miles)	417
Colehall (1.24 miles)	417
Gilbertstone (1.39 miles)	414
Lea Hall	401
Garrets Green (0.62 miles)	397
Sheldon (1.39 miles)	342
Tile Cross (1.24 miles)	330

Where are the most violent places near Lea Hall?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Buckland End	205
Colehall	205
South Yardley	204
Stockfield	204
Lea Hall	202
Shard End	191
Garrets Green	163
Gilbertstone	155
Tile Cross	133
Sheldon	114

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

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 Lea Hall 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 Lea Hall compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Shard End	86
2	Glebe Farm & Tile Cross	75
3	Garretts Green	75
4	Ward End	73
5	Bromford & Hodge Hill	71
6	Yardley East	63
7	Yardley West & Stechford	63
8	South Yardley	61
9	Sheldon	57
10	Lyndon	48
11	Elmdon	40

Which road in Lea Hall has the highest level of crime?

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