Crime Statistics for Lower Penn, Staffordshire, 2024

Crime statistics for Lower Penn, Lower Penn

There were a total of 24 street level crime incidents in Lower Penn 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 Lower Penn, 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 Crime10
Burglary3
Vehicle Crime3
Other Theft3
Other Crime2
Anti Social Behaviour1
Public Order1
Drugs1
All Crime24

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 Lower Penn. 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 Lower Penn

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Penn (1.39 miles)141
Compton (1.96 miles)104
Colton Hills (1.86 miles)66
Castlecroft (1.24 miles)60
Spring Hill (0.62 miles)52
The Bratch (1.39 miles)52
Giggetty (1.96 miles)46
Lower Penn24
Gospel End Village (1.75 miles)16
Trysull (1.39 miles)3

2.55%
of Wombourne South East residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Lower Penn?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Penn79
Compton49
Colton Hills38
Castlecroft33
Spring Hill29
The Bratch19
Giggetty17
Lower Penn10
Gospel End Village8
Trysull2

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

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 Lower Penn 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 Lower Penn compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lower Penn and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Lower Penn is ranked #7.

#WardScore
1Graiseley65
2Himley and Swindon64
3Trysull and Seisdon51
4Wombourne North and Lower Penn29
5Merry Hill25
6Penn22
7Wombourne South East18
8Tettenhall Wightwick18
9Wombourne South West18
10Perton Lakeside17
11Perton East7

Which road in Lower Penn has the highest level of crime?

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

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