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

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 December 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 283 street level crime incidents in Short Heath in December 2020. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour. Below are these incidents broken down by category.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Short Heath, 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	110
Anti Social Behaviour	39
Public Order	33
Criminal Damage Arson	30
Vehicle Crime	22
Burglary	17
Other Theft	11
Robbery	7
Shoplifting	7
Other Crime	5
Possession Of Weapons	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	283

Map of street level crime incidents in December 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
Bloxwich (1.76 miles)	372
Bentley (1.39 miles)	361
Dudley’s Fields (0.88 miles)	313
Leamore (1.24 miles)	295
Portobello (1.76 miles)	288
New Invention	284
Lane Head	283
Short Heath	283
Ashmore Lake (0.88 miles)	269
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.