Crime Statistics for Washford, Redditch, Warwickshire, 2024

There were a total of 91 street level crime incidents in Washford in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Washford, 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	40
Anti Social Behaviour	13
Shoplifting	10
Vehicle Crime	8
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Public Order	4
Other Theft	3
Drugs	2
Burglary	1
Other Crime	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	91

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 Washford. 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 Washford

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lakeside (1.75 miles)	241
Lodge Park (1.96 miles)	175
Ipsley (0.88 miles)	126
Greenlands (1.24 miles)	115
Matchborough (0.62 miles)	105
Green Lane (0.88 miles)	95
Washford	91
Moons Moat (1.86 miles)	91
Mappleborough Green (0.62 miles)	36
Littlewood Green (1.86 miles)	16

Where are the most violent places near Washford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lakeside	97
Lodge Park	60
Ipsley	51
Matchborough	50
Greenlands	42
Green Lane	42
Washford	40
Moons Moat	38
Mappleborough Green	17
Littlewood Green	11

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

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 Washford 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 Washford compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Central	75
2	Greenlands	59
3	Church Hill	58
4	Lodge Park	47
5	Winyates	45
6	Matchborough	44
7	Studley with Mappleborough Green	42
8	Headless Cross and Oakenshaw	39
9	Crabbs Cross	22
10	Astwood Bank and Feckenham	22

Which road in Washford has the highest level of crime?

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