Crime Statistics for Birchills, Walsall, Walsall, 2024

There were a total of 514 street level crime incidents in Birchills in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Birchills, 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	198
Vehicle Crime	54
Shoplifting	53
Anti Social Behaviour	50
Public Order	38
Other Theft	31
Criminal Damage Arson	24
Burglary	18
Possession Of Weapons	15
Robbery	12
Drugs	12
Other Crime	4
Theft From The Person	4
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	514

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 Birchills. 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 Birchills

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Walsall (0.88 miles)	671
Birchills	514
The Chuckery (1.39 miles)	499
Coal Pool (0.88 miles)	497
Blakenall Heath	410
Caldmore (1.39 miles)	389
Harden (1.39 miles)	351
Pleck (1.39 miles)	337
Bentley (1.39 miles)	303
Leamore (0.88 miles)	223

Where are the most violent places near Birchills?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Walsall	262
Birchills	198
Coal Pool	182
Caldmore	175
The Chuckery	170
Blakenall Heath	149
Bentley	144
Harden	138
Pleck	129
Leamore	104

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

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 Birchills 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 Birchills compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Blakenall	83
2	Pleck	77
3	St Matthew's	76
4	Bloxwich East	74
5	Willenhall South	73
6	Bentley and Darlaston North	70
7	Short Heath	69
8	Birchills Leamore	69
9	Bloxwich West	60
10	Palfrey	59
11	Friar Park	55

Which road in Birchills has the highest level of crime?

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