Crime Statistics for Gornalwood, Dudley, Dudley, 2024

Crime statistics for Gornalwood, Dudley

There were a total of 180 street level crime incidents in Gornalwood in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Gornalwood, 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 Crime86
Vehicle Crime20
Criminal Damage Arson19
Other Theft11
Public Order11
Anti Social Behaviour10
Burglary9
Other Crime6
Shoplifting5
Possession Of Weapons2
Drugs1
All Crime180

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 Gornalwood. 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 Gornalwood

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Hart’s Hill (1.39 miles)338
Eve Hill (1.24 miles)326
Dudley (1.24 miles)326
London Fields (0.62 miles)257
Lower Gornal (0.88 miles)238
Russells Hall (0.88 miles)234
Upper Gornal (1.39 miles)206
Bromley (1.39 miles)190
Gornalwood180
Ruiton (1.24 miles)133

7.22%
of Brockmoor and Pensnett residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Gornalwood?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Eve Hill146
Dudley146
Lower Gornal123
Hart’s Hill122
London Fields122
Upper Gornal111
Russells Hall102
Gornalwood86
Bromley81
Ruiton72

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

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 Gornalwood 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 Gornalwood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Gornalwood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Gornalwood is ranked #5.

#WardScore
1St Thomas's66
2Himley and Swindon64
3Castle and Priory60
4Brierley Hill58
5Brockmoor and Pensnett58
6St James's56
7Upper Gornal and Woodsetton54
8Gornal40
9Amblecote39
10Wordsley26
11Kingswinford South20

Which road in Gornalwood has the highest level of crime?

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

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