Crime Statistics for Sandwell, West Midlands, 2025

Is Sandwell rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 698 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Sandwell, 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	302
Criminal Damage Arson	63
Vehicle Crime	60
Anti Social Behaviour	54
Shoplifting	36
Drugs	34
Robbery	34
Other Theft	32
Public Order	30
Other Crime	21
Burglary	16
Possession Of Weapons	14
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	698

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 Sandwell. 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 Sandwell

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Brown’s Green (1.75 miles)	664
Sandwell	652
Rotton Park (1.75 miles)	636
Londonderry (1.75 miles)	504
Tat Bank (1.86 miles)	477
Mayer’s Green (1.39 miles)	328
Grand Union Canal (1.25 miles)	296
Langley (1.96 miles)	286
Handsworth (0.88 miles)	282
Bearwood (1.86 miles)	229

Where are the most violent places near Sandwell?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Londonderry	552
Brown’s Green	303
Sandwell	302
Rotton Park	260
Handsworth	246
Tat Bank	218
Bearwood	186
Langley	133
Grand Union Canal	124
Mayer’s Green	119

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

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 Sandwell 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 Sandwell compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Sandwell and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Sandwell have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Handsworth.

#	Ward	Score
1	Handsworth	83
2	Holyhead	76
3	North Edgbaston	75
4	West Bromwich Central	74
5	Handsworth Wood	66
6	Soho and Victoria	63
7	Abbey	55
8	Bristnall	54
9	Oldbury	54
10	St Pauls	54
11	Smethwick	52

Which road in Sandwell has the highest level of crime?

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