Crime Statistics for Dudley Wood, Sandwell, Sandwell, 2024

There were a total of 219 street level crime incidents in Dudley Wood in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Dudley Wood, 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	99
Criminal Damage Arson	26
Vehicle Crime	19
Burglary	16
Public Order	11
Other Theft	11
Anti Social Behaviour	11
Shoplifting	8
Drugs	7
Other Crime	6
Possession Of Weapons	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Robbery	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	219

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 Dudley Wood. 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 Dudley Wood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Round Oak (1.39 miles)	338
Brierley Hill (1.24 miles)	304
Stour (1.14 miles)	302
Dudley Wood	219
Bowling Green	219
Baptist End (1.24 miles)	208
Netherton (1.24 miles)	208
Cradley Heath (0.62 miles)	172
Haden Cross (1.39 miles)	163
Cradley (1.24 miles)	129

Where are the most violent places near Dudley Wood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Round Oak	118
Brierley Hill	107
Stour	103
Dudley Wood	99
Bowling Green	99
Cradley Heath	88
Haden Cross	79
Baptist End	77
Netherton	77
Cradley	71

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

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 Dudley Wood 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 Dudley Wood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Dudley Wood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Dudley Wood is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Rowley	67
2	Netherton, Woodside and St Andrews	59
3	Brierley Hill	58
4	Cradley Heath and Old Hill	57
5	Blackheath	56
6	Quarry Bank and Dudley Wood	54
7	Lye and Stourbridge North	50
8	Cradley and Wollescote	50
9	Halesowen North	48
10	Amblecote	39
11	Belle Vale	34

Which road in Dudley Wood has the highest level of crime?

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