Crime Statistics for Sparkbrook, Birmingham, Birmingham, Apr 2020

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The aim of this article is to provide a brief overview of street level crime in Sparkbrook using the latest Police statistics. Police data is usually published two months in arrears, so May 2020 are the latest figures. The data published by the Police are incidents that were reported to them in that month, not the crimes that were prosecuted and/or had further action taken. In by far the majority of incidents, no further action is taken.

There were a total of 626 street level crime incidents in Sparkbrook in May 2020. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour. Below are these incidents broken down by category.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Sparkbrook, 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	229
Anti Social Behaviour	157
Public Order	54
Criminal Damage Arson	41
Vehicle Crime	41
Other Theft	21
Burglary	19
Drugs	15
Robbery	11
Other Crime	11
Bicycle Theft	9
Possession Of Weapons	9
Shoplifting	6
Theft From The Person	3
All Crime	626

Map of street level crime incidents in May 2020

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bordesley (1.24 miles)	859
Sparkbrook	626
Highgate (0.88 miles)	604
Bordesley Green (1.75 miles)	570
Little Bromwich (1.75 miles)	570
Sparkhill (0.88 miles)	512
Moseley (0.62 miles)	483
Balsall Heath (0.62 miles)	457
Moor Green (1.75 miles)	378
Edgbaston (1.86 miles)	266

22.3%
of Birmingham residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2011 Census

Most violent places near Sparkbrook

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