Crime Statistics for Short Heath, Walsall, Walsall, April 2020

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The aim of this article is to provide a brief overview of street level crime in Short Heath using the latest Police statistics. Police data is usually published two months in arrears, so May 2020 are the latest figures. The data published by the Police are incidents that were reported to them in that month, not the crimes that were prosecuted and/or had further action taken. In by far the majority of incidents, no further action is taken.

There were a total of 279 street level crime incidents in Short Heath in May 2020. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime. Below are these incidents broken down by category.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	96
Violent Crime	93
Criminal Damage Arson	23
Vehicle Crime	22
Public Order	14
Burglary	13
Shoplifting	8
Other Theft	3
Robbery	3
Drugs	2
Other Crime	2
All Crime	279

Map of street level crime incidents in May 2020

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bentley (1.39 miles)	346
Ashmore Lake (0.88 miles)	316
Portobello (1.76 miles)	300
New Invention	294
Bloxwich (1.76 miles)	291
Lane Head	281
Short Heath	279
Leamore (1.24 miles)	240
Dudley’s Fields (0.88 miles)	236
Ashmore Park (0.88 miles)	228

9.9%
of Walsall residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2011 Census

Most violent places near Short Heath

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