Crime Statistics for Gospel End Village, Staffordshire, 2024

Crime statistics for Gospel End Village, Gospel End Village

There were a total of 16 street level crime incidents in Gospel End Village in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Burglary.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Gospel End Village, 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 Crime8
Burglary3
Criminal Damage Arson2
Anti Social Behaviour1
Drugs1
Vehicle Crime1
All Crime16

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 Gospel End Village. 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 Gospel End Village

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Cinder Hill (1.96 miles)205
Penn (1.86 miles)141
Ruiton (1.39 miles)133
Colton Hills (1.39 miles)66
Spring Hill (1.39 miles)52
The Bratch (1.86 miles)52
Giggetty (1.96 miles)46
Blakeley (1.96 miles)46
Lower Penn (1.75 miles)24
Gospel End Village16

2.7%
of Himley and Swindon residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Gospel End Village?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Cinder Hill105
Penn79
Ruiton72
Colton Hills38
Spring Hill29
The Bratch19
Giggetty17
Blakeley17
Lower Penn10
Gospel End Village8

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Gospel End Village?

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 Gospel End Village 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 Gospel End Village compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Gospel End Village and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Residents in Gospel End Village have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Wombourne South West.

#WardScore
1Himley and Swindon64
2Upper Gornal and Woodsetton54
3Spring Vale51
4Gornal40
5Sedgley39
6Merry Hill25
7Penn22
8Kingswinford North and Wall Heath21
9Kingswinford South20
10Wombourne South East18
11Wombourne South West18

Which road in Gospel End Village has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Gospel End Village with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Brick Kiln Way.

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