Crime Statistics for Friar Park, Sandwell, Sandwell, 2024

There were a total of 285 street level crime incidents in Friar Park 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 Friar Park, 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	136
Vehicle Crime	27
Anti Social Behaviour	21
Criminal Damage Arson	19
Other Theft	18
Public Order	16
Burglary	13
Robbery	8
Drugs	8
Other Crime	7
Shoplifting	4
Possession Of Weapons	4
Theft From The Person	2
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	285

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 Friar Park. 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 Friar Park

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Black Lake (1.39 miles)	374
Balls Hill (0.88 miles)	310
Stone Cross	285
Friar Park	285
Hall Green	285
Bescot	279
Harvills Hawthorn (1.39 miles)	267
Church Hill (1.39 miles)	247
Wednesbury (1.39 miles)	247
Charlemont (0.88 miles)	205

Where are the most violent places near Friar Park?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Black Lake	147
Balls Hill	139
Stone Cross	136
Friar Park	136
Hall Green	136
Bescot	126
Harvills Hawthorn	112
Church Hill	97
Wednesbury	97
Charlemont	92

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

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 Friar Park 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 Friar Park compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Friar Park and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Friar Park is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Pleck	77
2	Hateley Heath	73
3	Bentley and Darlaston North	70
4	Greets Green and Lyng	69
5	Great Bridge	69
6	Princes End	67
7	Darlaston South	64
8	Wednesbury South	63
9	Charlemont with Grove Vale	63
10	Wednesbury North	62
11	Friar Park	55

Which road in Friar Park has the highest level of crime?

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