Crime Statistics for Wednesfield, Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, 2024

There were a total of 342 street level crime incidents in Wednesfield in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Wednesfield, 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	143
Vehicle Crime	33
Criminal Damage Arson	31
Public Order	29
Anti Social Behaviour	26
Shoplifting	18
Other Theft	17
Burglary	15
Drugs	8
Robbery	6
Theft From The Person	6
Other Crime	5
Bicycle Theft	4
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	342

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 Wednesfield. 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 Wednesfield

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Heath Town (1.39 miles)	653
Park Village (1.24 miles)	645
Newbolds (0.62 miles)	433
Old Fallings (1.39 miles)	415
Moseley (1.39 miles)	412
Portobello (1.39 miles)	351
Wednesfield	342
Ashmore Lake (1.39 miles)	288
Lane Head (1.86 miles)	240
Ashmore Park (1.39 miles)	172

Where are the most violent places near Wednesfield?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Park Village	265
Heath Town	238
Newbolds	185
Old Fallings	172
Moseley	169
Portobello	159
Wednesfield	143
Ashmore Lake	109
Lane Head	97
Ashmore Park	74

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

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 Wednesfield 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 Wednesfield compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Bilston East	82
2	East Park	73
3	St Peter's	72
4	Bilston North	68
5	Heath Town	65
6	Bushbury South and Low Hill	64
7	Ettingshall	64
8	Park	62
9	Fallings Park	54
10	Wednesfield South	52
11	Wednesfield North	43

Which road in Wednesfield has the highest level of crime?

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