Crime Statistics for Walker’s Heath, Birmingham, Birmingham

The aim of this article is to provide a brief overview of street level crime in Walker’s Heath using the latest Police statistics. Police data is usually published two months in arrears, so August 2019 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 219 street level crime incidents in Walker’s Heath in August 2019. 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 Walker’s Heath, 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	76
Anti Social Behaviour	38
Burglary	26
Criminal Damage Arson	25
Public Order	15
Other Theft	12
Vehicle Crime	8
Drugs	7
Robbery	6
Possession Of Weapons	2
Other Crime	2
Shoplifting	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	219

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2019

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Walker’s Heath. 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 Walker’s Heath

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Turves Green (1.86 miles)	294
Alcester Lane’s End (1.75 miles)	277
Bournville (1.96 miles)	257
Stirchley (1.86 miles)	243
Ten Acres (1.86 miles)	243
Walker’s Heath	219
Hollywood (1.96 miles)	71
Bateman’s Green (1.75 miles)	32
Lea End (1.96 miles)	24
Forhill (1.86 miles)	3

Most violent places near Walker’s Heath

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Turves Green	117
Alcester Lane’s End	87
Walker’s Heath	76
Stirchley	71
Ten Acres	71
Bournville	69
Hollywood	15
Lea End	7
Bateman’s Green	3
Forhill	1