Crime Statistics for Walmley, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, 2024

There were a total of 162 street level crime incidents in Walmley in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Walmley, 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	55
Shoplifting	35
Vehicle Crime	19
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Other Theft	11
Anti Social Behaviour	9
Public Order	8
Burglary	5
Other Crime	2
Drugs	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Robbery	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	162

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 Walmley. 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 Walmley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Erdington (1.75 miles)	516
New Oscott (1.96 miles)	297
Boldmere (1.39 miles)	239
Tyburn (1.24 miles)	214
Castle Vale (1.39 miles)	177
Falcon Lodge (1.96 miles)	164
Walmley	162
Reddicap Heath (1.24 miles)	155
Maney (1.39 miles)	146
Minworth (1.39 miles)	119

Where are the most violent places near Walmley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Erdington	253
New Oscott	126
Tyburn	103
Boldmere	83
Castle Vale	73
Falcon Lodge	63
Reddicap Heath	56
Walmley	55
Maney	50
Minworth	41

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

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 Walmley 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 Walmley compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Gravelly Hill	87
2	Stockland Green	74
3	Castle Vale	66
4	Castle Bromwich	64
5	Erdington	60
6	Pype Hayes	55
7	Sutton Vesey	40
8	Sutton Reddicap	35
9	Sutton Wylde Green	35
10	Sutton Trinity	32
11	Sutton Walmley & Minworth	24

Which road in Walmley has the highest level of crime?

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