Crime Statistics for Goscote, Walsall, Walsall, 2024

There were a total of 235 street level crime incidents in Goscote 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 Goscote, 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	102
Vehicle Crime	30
Criminal Damage Arson	29
Anti Social Behaviour	22
Other Crime	10
Public Order	10
Other Theft	10
Drugs	8
Burglary	6
Possession Of Weapons	3
Robbery	2
Shoplifting	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	235

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 Goscote. 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 Goscote

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Coal Pool (0.88 miles)	497
Blakenall Heath (1.24 miles)	410
Harden (0.62 miles)	302
Goscote	235
Heath End	216
Pelsall Wood (1.39 miles)	180
Pelsall (1.24 miles)	140
Rushall	118
Shelfield (0.88 miles)	112
High Heath (0.88 miles)	112

Where are the most violent places near Goscote?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Coal Pool	182
Blakenall Heath	149
Harden	132
Goscote	102
Heath End	83
Pelsall Wood	68
Pelsall	52
Rushall	40
Shelfield	40
High Heath	40

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

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 Goscote 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 Goscote compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Blakenall	83
2	Pleck	77
3	St Matthew's	76
4	Bloxwich East	74
5	Short Heath	69
6	Birchills Leamore	69
7	Bloxwich West	60
8	Palfrey	59
9	Rushall-Shelfield	47
10	Pelsall	45
11	Aldridge Central and South	25

Which road in Goscote has the highest level of crime?

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