Crime Statistics for Langley, Sandwell, Sandwell, 2024

There were a total of 338 street level crime incidents in Langley in February 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 Langley, 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	135
Shoplifting	39
Criminal Damage Arson	31
Vehicle Crime	24
Public Order	24
Burglary	21
Anti Social Behaviour	20
Other Theft	16
Drugs	9
Robbery	7
Other Crime	6
Possession Of Weapons	5
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	338

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 Langley. 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 Langley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Tat Bank	355
Grand Union Canal (1.02 miles)	350
Langley	338
Causeway Green	306
Langley Green	306
Oldbury (0.62 miles)	306
Round’s Green (0.88 miles)	304
Londonderry (0.88 miles)	279
Portway (1.24 miles)	261
Bristnall Fields (1.24 miles)	210

Where are the most violent places near Langley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Grand Union Canal	167
Tat Bank	142
Langley	135
Londonderry	128
Causeway Green	122
Langley Green	122
Oldbury	121
Round’s Green	120
Portway	115
Bristnall Fields	77

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

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 Langley 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 Langley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Langley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Langley is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Greets Green and Lyng	69
2	Rowley	67
3	Langley	65
4	Quinton	62
5	Tividale	60
6	Blackheath	56
7	Old Warley	56
8	Bristnall	54
9	Oldbury	54
10	Smethwick	52
11	Halesowen North	48

Which road in Langley has the highest level of crime?

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