Crime Statistics for Halesowen, Dudley, Dudley, 2024

There were a total of 101 street level crime incidents in Halesowen in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Halesowen, 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	49
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Shoplifting	8
Burglary	6
Other Theft	5
Vehicle Crime	5
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Other Crime	3
Robbery	3
Drugs	2
Theft From The Person	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Public Order	2
All Crime	101

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 Halesowen. 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 Halesowen

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Coombeswood (1.75 miles)	176
Cradley Heath (1.39 miles)	172
Haden Cross (1.39 miles)	163
Short Cross (0.88 miles)	158
Belle Vale (0.62 miles)	137
Cradley (0.88 miles)	129
Lapal (1.86 miles)	112
Hasbury	101
Halesowen	101
Lower Illey (1.76 miles)	14

Where are the most violent places near Halesowen?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Cradley Heath	88
Haden Cross	79
Cradley	71
Coombeswood	68
Short Cross	65
Belle Vale	65
Hasbury	49
Halesowen	49
Lapal	44
Lower Illey	3

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

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 Halesowen 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 Halesowen compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Halesowen and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Resident in Halesowen have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Rowley.

#	Ward	Score
1	Rowley	67
2	Cradley Heath and Old Hill	57
3	Blackheath	56
4	Quarry Bank and Dudley Wood	54
5	Lye and Stourbridge North	50
6	Cradley and Wollescote	50
7	Halesowen North	48
8	Halesowen South	42
9	Pedmore and Stourbridge East	40
10	Belle Vale	34
11	Hayley Green and Cradley South	21

Which road in Halesowen has the highest level of crime?

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