Crime Statistics for Ashmore Lake, Walsall, Walsall, 2024

Is Ashmore Lake rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for November 2024. There were a total of 544 incidents. 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 Ashmore Lake, 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 Crime183
Shoplifting101
Vehicle Crime83
Anti Social Behaviour50
Other Theft34
Criminal Damage Arson30
Burglary24
Public Order20
Other Crime9
Drugs6
Possession Of Weapons2
Robbery2
All Crime544

Map of street level crime incidents in November 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Ashmore Lake. 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 Ashmore Lake

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Portobello (0.88 miles)671
Lane Head (0.88 miles)451
Ashmore Lake419
Ashmore Park (1.24 miles)375
Stow Lawn (1.75 miles)339
Wednesfield (1.39 miles)327
Bentley (1.39 miles)307
Short Heath (0.88 miles)296
New Invention (1.39 miles)222
Dudley’s Fields (1.75 miles)214

17.15%
of Willenhall South residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Ashmore Lake?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Portobello228
Lane Head209
Ashmore Park189
Ashmore Lake183
Wednesfield137
Bentley133
Short Heath120
Stow Lawn115
New Invention101
Dudley’s Fields97

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Ashmore Lake?

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 Ashmore Lake 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 Ashmore Lake compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ashmore Lake and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Ashmore Lake is ranked #2.

#WardScore
1Bilston East82
2Willenhall South73
3East Park73
4Bentley and Darlaston North70
5Short Heath69
6Bilston North68
7Darlaston South64
8Willenhall North58
9Fallings Park54
10Wednesfield South52
11Wednesfield North43

Which road in Ashmore Lake has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: November 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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