Crime Statistics for Mayer’s Green, Sandwell, Sandwell, 2024

There were a total of 347 street level crime incidents in Mayer’s Green in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Mayer’s Green, 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	129
Other Theft	29
Criminal Damage Arson	26
Shoplifting	26
Vehicle Crime	26
Burglary	23
Anti Social Behaviour	20
Public Order	19
Drugs	13
Theft From The Person	12
Robbery	12
Other Crime	7
Possession Of Weapons	4
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	347

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 Mayer’s Green. 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 Mayer’s Green

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Handsworth (1.39 miles)	398
Black Lake (1.39 miles)	374
Sandwell (1.39 miles)	360
Lambert’s End	356
Grand Union Canal (1.22 miles)	350
Mayer’s Green	347
Churchfield	325
Balls Hill (1.75 miles)	310
Charlemont	205
Newton (1.75 miles)	77

Where are the most violent places near Mayer’s Green?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Sandwell	180
Handsworth	169
Grand Union Canal	167
Lambert’s End	153
Black Lake	147
Balls Hill	139
Mayer’s Green	129
Churchfield	114
Charlemont	92
Newton	39

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Mayer’s Green?

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 Mayer’s Green 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 Mayer’s Green compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Handsworth	83
2	Holyhead	76
3	West Bromwich Central	74
4	Hateley Heath	73
5	Greets Green and Lyng	69
6	Great Bridge	69
7	Handsworth Wood	66
8	Wednesbury South	63
9	Oldbury	54
10	St Pauls	54
11	Smethwick	52

Which road in Mayer’s Green has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Mayer’s Green with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around All Saints Way.