Crime Statistics for Inkford, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, 2024

Crime statistics for Inkford, Bromsgrove

There were a total of 3 street level crime incidents in Inkford in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Other Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour1
Other Crime1
Violent Crime1
All Crime3

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 Inkford. 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 Inkford

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Drakes Cross (1.39 miles)32
Grimes Hill (0.88 miles)28
Bateman’s Green (1.24 miles)23
Tidbury Green (1.39 miles)19
Tanner’s Green (0.62 miles)6
Forshaw Heath (0.88 miles)6
Inkford3
Forhill (1.39 miles)3
Birch Acre (0.62 miles)3
Weatheroak Hill (1.24 miles)2

4.68%
of Alvechurch South residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Inkford?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Tidbury Green7
Drakes Cross5
Grimes Hill4
Bateman’s Green3
Tanner’s Green1
Inkford1
Forshaw Heath0
Forhill0
Birch Acre0
Weatheroak Hill0

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

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 Inkford 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 Inkford compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Inkford and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Inkford is ranked #9.

#WardScore
1King's Norton South85
2Wythall East58
3Tanworth-in-Arden57
4Shirley West56
5Wythall West50
6Barnt Green & Hopwood50
7Drakes Cross46
8Alvechurch Village43
9Alvechurch South41
10Hollywood37
11Blythe22

Which road in Inkford has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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