Crime Statistics for Stour Bridge Canal, Dudley, Dudley, 2024

Crime statistics for Stour Bridge Canal, Dudley

There were a total of 217 street level crime incidents in Stour Bridge Canal in January 2024. 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 Stour Bridge Canal, 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 Crime90
Shoplifting34
Vehicle Crime28
Public Order16
Criminal Damage Arson14
Burglary13
Anti Social Behaviour6
Other Crime3
Other Theft3
Theft From The Person3
Robbery3
Possession Of Weapons2
Drugs2
All Crime217

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 Stour Bridge Canal. 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 Stour Bridge Canal

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Hart’s Hill (1.45 miles)338
Round Oak (1.25 miles)311
Brockmoor (0.63 miles)294
Stour (1.39 miles)273
Brierley Hill (1.34 miles)263
Silver End (0.79 miles)258
Amblecote (1.28 miles)219
Stour Bridge Canal217
Bromley (0.74 miles)190
Buckpool (0.79 miles)148

2.31%
of Wordsley residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Stour Bridge Canal?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Hart’s Hill122
Round Oak116
Brockmoor113
Silver End110
Brierley Hill93
Stour91
Stour Bridge Canal90
Amblecote87
Bromley81
Buckpool62

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Stour Bridge Canal?

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 Stour Bridge Canal 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 Stour Bridge Canal compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Stour Bridge Canal and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Stour Bridge Canal is ranked #8.

#WardScore
1Brierley Hill58
2Brockmoor and Pensnett58
3Quarry Bank and Dudley Wood54
4Lye and Stourbridge North50
5Wollaston and Stourbridge Town50
6Pedmore and Stourbridge East40
7Amblecote39
8Wordsley26
9Kingswinford North and Wall Heath21
10Norton21
11Kingswinford South20

Which road in Stour Bridge Canal has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
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