Crime Statistics for Heath Town, Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, 2024

Crime statistics for Heath Town, Wolverhampton

There were a total of 691 street level crime incidents in Heath Town in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Heath Town, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime245
Shoplifting97
Public Order52
Anti Social Behaviour48
Vehicle Crime48
Criminal Damage Arson44
Other Theft42
Burglary34
Drugs20
Theft From The Person15
Possession Of Weapons14
Robbery13
Other Crime13
Bicycle Theft6
All Crime691

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Heath Town. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Heath Town

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Springfield (0.62 miles)768
Heath Town691
Park Village (0.62 miles)636
Shropshire Union Canal (1.02 miles)538
Old Fallings (1.24 miles)464
Moseley (0.88 miles)449
Blakenhall (1.39 miles)439
Newbolds (0.88 miles)418
Dunstall Hill (1.39 miles)338
Wednesfield (1.39 miles)329

36.17%
of Heath Town residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Heath Town?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Springfield297
Heath Town245
Park Village239
Shropshire Union Canal228
Blakenhall175
Moseley161
Dunstall Hill161
Old Fallings155
Newbolds145
Wednesfield125

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

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 Heath Town 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 Heath Town compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Heath Town and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Heath Town is ranked #4.

#WardScore
1East Park73
2St Peter's72
3Graiseley65
4Heath Town65
5Bushbury South and Low Hill64
6Ettingshall64
7Blakenhall63
8Park62
9Fallings Park54
10Wednesfield South52
11Penn22

Which road in Heath Town has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
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