Crime Statistics for Wall Heath, Dudley, Staffordshire, 2024

There were a total of 35 street level crime incidents in Wall Heath in February 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 Wall Heath, 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	15
Burglary	10
Vehicle Crime	3
Public Order	2
Shoplifting	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	35

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 Wall Heath. 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 Wall Heath

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Stour Bridge Canal (2.31 miles)	195
Bromley (1.96 miles)	163
Gornalwood (2.56 miles)	158
Buckpool (2.24 miles)	120
Giggetty (1.96 miles)	46
Blakeley (1.96 miles)	46
The Bratch (2.56 miles)	41
Wall Heath	35
Greensforge (1.39 miles)	3
Ashwood (0.88 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Wall Heath?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Gornalwood	81
Stour Bridge Canal	80
Bromley	73
Buckpool	50
Giggetty	20
Blakeley	20
Wall Heath	15
The Bratch	13
Greensforge	0
Ashwood	0

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

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 Wall Heath 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 Wall Heath compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Wall Heath and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Wall Heath is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Himley and Swindon	64
2	Brockmoor and Pensnett	58
3	Trysull and Seisdon	51
4	Wollaston and Stourbridge Town	50
5	Gornal	40
6	Amblecote	39
7	Wordsley	26
8	Kingswinford North and Wall Heath	21
9	Kingswinford South	20
10	Wombourne South East	18
11	Wombourne South West	18

Which road in Wall Heath has the highest level of crime?

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