Crime Statistics for Round Oak, Dudley, Dudley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Round Oak in July 2024. There were a total of 727 incidents. 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 Round Oak, 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	273
Shoplifting	100
Public Order	68
Vehicle Crime	60
Anti Social Behaviour	47
Criminal Damage Arson	44
Other Theft	43
Burglary	32
Other Crime	18
Drugs	16
Possession Of Weapons	14
Robbery	10
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	727

Map of street level crime incidents in July 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Round Oak. 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 Round Oak

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Round Oak	622
Stour (0.39 miles)	334
Silver End (0.88 miles)	284
Russells Hall (1.24 miles)	267
Stour Bridge Canal (1.25 miles)	219
Baptist End (1.39 miles)	0
Hart’s Hill (0.62 miles)	0
Brockmoor (0.62 miles)	0
Bromley (1.39 miles)	0
Brierley Hill (0.62 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Round Oak?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Round Oak	273
Silver End	125
Stour	121
Russells Hall	121
Stour Bridge Canal	98
Baptist End	0
Hart’s Hill	0
Brockmoor	0
Bromley	0
Brierley Hill	0

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

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 Round Oak 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 Round Oak compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Netherton, Woodside and St Andrews	59
2	Brierley Hill	58
3	Brockmoor and Pensnett	58
4	Quarry Bank and Dudley Wood	54
5	Lye and Stourbridge North	50
6	Cradley and Wollescote	50
7	Wollaston and Stourbridge Town	50
8	Pedmore and Stourbridge East	40
9	Amblecote	39
10	Wordsley	26
11	Kingswinford South	20

Which road in Round Oak has the highest level of crime?

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