Crime Statistics for The Chuckery, Walsall, Walsall, August 2019

The aim of this article is to provide a brief overview of street level crime in The Chuckery using the latest Police statistics. Police data is usually published two months in arrears, so August 2019 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 493 street level crime incidents in The Chuckery in August 2019. 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 The Chuckery, 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	171
Anti Social Behaviour	62
Shoplifting	47
Vehicle Crime	39
Criminal Damage Arson	38
Public Order	37
Other Theft	29
Burglary	22
Drugs	13
Robbery	13
Possession Of Weapons	7
Theft From The Person	6
Other Crime	5
Bicycle Theft	4
All Crime	493

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2019

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Walsall	662
Birchills (1.39 miles)	519
Coal Pool (1.39 miles)	511
The Chuckery	493
Palfrey (0.88 miles)	358
Caldmore (0.88 miles)	358
Bescot (1.76 miles)	288
Goscote (1.86 miles)	233
The Delves (1.39 miles)	220
Barr Common (1.96 miles)	44

Most violent places near The Chuckery

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Walsall	210
The Chuckery	171
Birchills	132
Coal Pool	126
Palfrey	122
Caldmore	122
Bescot	93
The Delves	91
Goscote	70
Barr Common	7