Crime Statistics for Bearwood, Sandwell, Sandwell, 2024

There were a total of 293 street level crime incidents in Bearwood 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 Bearwood, 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	134
Vehicle Crime	35
Anti Social Behaviour	25
Criminal Damage Arson	22
Public Order	19
Burglary	19
Other Theft	13
Shoplifting	9
Robbery	6
Possession Of Weapons	5
Bicycle Theft	4
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	293

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 Bearwood. 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 Bearwood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ladywood (1.86 miles)	697
Rotton Park (1.39 miles)	630
Sandwell (1.86 miles)	442
Warley Woods	325
Causeway Green (1.96 miles)	307
Bearwood	293
Londonderry (1.39 miles)	290
Harborne (1.24 miles)	280
Beech Lanes (0.88 miles)	244
Bristnall Fields	210

Where are the most violent places near Bearwood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Rotton Park	244
Ladywood	238
Sandwell	209
Bearwood	134
Londonderry	129
Causeway Green	126
Harborne	116
Warley Woods	106
Beech Lanes	93
Bristnall Fields	77

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

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 Bearwood 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 Bearwood compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Soho & Jewellery Quarter	76
2	North Edgbaston	75
3	Soho and Victoria	63
4	Harborne	62
5	Quinton	62
6	Edgbaston	59
7	Bournbrook & Selly Park	56
8	Old Warley	56
9	Abbey	55
10	Bristnall	54
11	Smethwick	52

Which road in Bearwood has the highest level of crime?

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