Crime Statistics for Brierley Hill, Dudley, Dudley, 2024

Crime statistics for Brierley Hill, Dudley

There were a total of 263 street level crime incidents in Brierley Hill in January 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 Brierley Hill, 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 Crime93
Shoplifting70
Vehicle Crime22
Criminal Damage Arson16
Burglary10
Anti Social Behaviour10
Public Order10
Other Theft9
Robbery6
Drugs6
Other Crime5
Theft From The Person4
Bicycle Theft1
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime263

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Brierley Hill. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Brierley Hill

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Hart’s Hill (1.24 miles)338
Round Oak (0.62 miles)311
Brockmoor (0.88 miles)294
Stour (0.28 miles)273
Brierley Hill263
Silver End (0.62 miles)258
Stour Bridge Canal (1.34 miles)217
Dudley Wood (1.24 miles)195
Bowling Green (1.24 miles)195
Cradley Heath (1.39 miles)149

3.85%
of Amblecote residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Brierley Hill?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Hart’s Hill122
Round Oak116
Brockmoor113
Silver End110
Brierley Hill93
Stour91
Stour Bridge Canal90
Dudley Wood88
Bowling Green88
Cradley Heath75

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

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 Brierley Hill 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 Brierley Hill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Rowley67
2Netherton, Woodside and St Andrews59
3Brierley Hill58
4Brockmoor and Pensnett58
5Quarry Bank and Dudley Wood54
6Lye and Stourbridge North50
7Cradley and Wollescote50
8Wollaston and Stourbridge Town50
9Pedmore and Stourbridge East40
10Amblecote39
11Wordsley26

Which road in Brierley Hill has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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