Crime Statistics for Pedmore, Dudley, Dudley, 2024

There were a total of 35 street level crime incidents in Pedmore in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Pedmore, 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	14
Anti Social Behaviour	10
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Burglary	2
Robbery	1
Shoplifting	1
Other Theft	1
All Crime	35

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 Pedmore. 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 Pedmore

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Silver End (2.48 miles)	245
Amblecote (2.24 miles)	182
Cradley (2.24 miles)	129
Hasbury (2.56 miles)	101
Halesowen (2.56 miles)	101
Pedmore	35
Stourbridge (1.96 miles)	25
Norton (1.24 miles)	17
Lower Clent (1.86 miles)	16
Hagley (0.62 miles)	14

Where are the most violent places near Pedmore?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Silver End	102
Cradley	71
Amblecote	65
Hasbury	49
Halesowen	49
Pedmore	14
Hagley	10
Stourbridge	9
Lower Clent	9
Norton	6

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

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 Pedmore 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 Pedmore compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Pedmore and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Pedmore is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Lye and Stourbridge North	50
2	Cradley and Wollescote	50
3	Wollaston and Stourbridge Town	50
4	Pedmore and Stourbridge East	40
5	Kinver	39
6	Amblecote	39
7	Hagley East	33
8	Wordsley	26
9	Hayley Green and Cradley South	21
10	Norton	21
11	Hagley West	18

Which road in Pedmore has the highest level of crime?

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