Crime Statistics for Ocker Hill, Sandwell, Sandwell, 2024

Crime statistics for Ocker Hill, Sandwell

There were a total of 371 street level crime incidents in Ocker Hill in January 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 Ocker Hill, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime151
Shoplifting42
Anti Social Behaviour29
Vehicle Crime25
Public Order23
Criminal Damage Arson22
Burglary20
Other Theft18
Robbery13
Drugs11
Other Crime10
Possession Of Weapons4
Bicycle Theft2
Theft From The Person1
All Crime371

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Ocker Hill. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Ocker Hill

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Wednesbury Oak (0.88 miles)409
Black Lake (1.39 miles)402
Ocker Hill371
Balls Hill (1.24 miles)307
Great Bridge (0.62 miles)289
Horseley Heath (0.62 miles)289
Toll End (0.62 miles)289
Harvills Hawthorn (0.62 miles)269
Tipton (1.39 miles)264
Tipton Green (1.39 miles)264

20.37%
of Tipton Green residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Ocker Hill?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Wednesbury Oak189
Black Lake151
Ocker Hill151
Balls Hill117
Tipton117
Tipton Green117
Great Bridge116
Horseley Heath116
Toll End116
Harvills Hawthorn105

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

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 Ocker Hill 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 Ocker Hill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Hateley Heath73
2Bentley and Darlaston North70
3Tipton Green69
4Greets Green and Lyng69
5Great Bridge69
6Princes End67
7Darlaston South64
8Wednesbury South63
9Wednesbury North62
10Castle and Priory60
11Coseley East54

Which road in Ocker Hill has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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