Crime Statistics for Lower Gornal, Dudley, Dudley, 2024

There were a total of 212 street level crime incidents in Lower Gornal in February 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 Lower Gornal, 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	112
Vehicle Crime	21
Burglary	17
Anti Social Behaviour	15
Other Theft	13
Criminal Damage Arson	13
Public Order	8
Shoplifting	4
Drugs	3
Other Crime	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	212

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 Lower Gornal. 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 Lower Gornal

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Eve Hill (0.88 miles)	289
Dudley (0.88 miles)	289
London Fields (0.62 miles)	234
Russells Hall (1.24 miles)	234
Lower Gornal	212
Upper Gornal (0.62 miles)	206
Wallbrook (1.76 miles)	201
Gornalwood (0.88 miles)	158
Cinder Hill (1.86 miles)	155
Ruiton (0.88 miles)	133

Where are the most violent places near Lower Gornal?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Eve Hill	140
Dudley	140
London Fields	125
Lower Gornal	112
Upper Gornal	111
Russells Hall	102
Wallbrook	85
Gornalwood	81
Ruiton	72
Cinder Hill	56

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

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 Lower Gornal 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 Lower Gornal compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	St Thomas's	66
2	Himley and Swindon	64
3	Castle and Priory	60
4	Brierley Hill	58
5	Brockmoor and Pensnett	58
6	St James's	56
7	Upper Gornal and Woodsetton	54
8	Coseley East	54
9	Gornal	40
10	Sedgley	39
11	Kingswinford South	20

Which road in Lower Gornal has the highest level of crime?

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