Crime Statistics for Lane Head, Walsall, Walsall, 2025

Is Lane Head rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 263 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 Lane Head, 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 Crime100
Shoplifting36
Criminal Damage Arson32
Vehicle Crime19
Anti Social Behaviour19
Burglary15
Other Theft15
Public Order11
Possession Of Weapons7
Robbery3
Other Crime3
Drugs2
Bicycle Theft1
All Crime263

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Short Heath363
Portobello (1.75 miles)321
Bloxwich (1.75 miles)299
Dudley’s Fields (0.88 miles)292
Ashmore Lake (0.88 miles)277
Lane Head263
Bentley (1.39 miles)251
Leamore (1.24 miles)227
New Invention212
Ashmore Park (0.88 miles)183

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



Where are the most violent places near Lane Head?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Short Heath186
Portobello133
Dudley’s Fields132
Bloxwich118
Lane Head100
Bentley100
Ashmore Lake98
New Invention81
Leamore79
Ashmore Park77

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

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 Lane Head 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 Lane Head compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Bilston East82
2Willenhall South73
3East Park73
4Bentley and Darlaston North70
5Short Heath69
6Birchills Leamore69
7Bilston North68
8Bloxwich West60
9Willenhall North58
10Wednesfield South52
11Wednesfield North43

Which road in Lane Head has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2025
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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