Crime Statistics for Amblecote, Dudley, Dudley, 2024

Is Amblecote rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for December 2024. There were a total of 606 incidents. 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 Amblecote, 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 Crime212
Shoplifting88
Criminal Damage Arson68
Public Order48
Other Theft44
Vehicle Crime36
Anti Social Behaviour32
Drugs20
Other Crime18
Burglary16
Possession Of Weapons8
Theft From The Person8
Robbery4
Bicycle Theft4
All Crime606

Map of street level crime incidents in December 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Brockmoor (1.75 miles)468
Amblecote298
Brierley Hill (1.96 miles)278
Silver End (1.39 miles)217
Stour Bridge Canal (1.28 miles)177
Bromley (1.96 miles)165
Buckpool (0.62 miles)121
Stourbridge (1.39 miles)34
Norton (1.86 miles)29
Stourton (1.86 miles)5

4.27%
of Wollaston and Stourbridge Town residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Amblecote?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Amblecote212
Brockmoor202
Brierley Hill118
Silver End79
Bromley75
Stour Bridge Canal69
Buckpool49
Stourbridge6
Norton3
Stourton3

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

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 Amblecote 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 Amblecote compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Brierley Hill58
2Lye and Stourbridge North50
3Wollaston and Stourbridge Town50
4Pedmore and Stourbridge East40
5Kinver39
6Amblecote39
7Hagley East33
8Wordsley26
9Kingswinford North and Wall Heath21
10Norton21
11Kingswinford South20

Which road in Amblecote has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: December 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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