West Midlands Police Statistics
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The crime rate in West Midlands Police's force coverage area is 90 crimes per 1,000 people, for the 12-month period ending April 2026. The most commonly-reported crimes are violence and sexual offences, reported at a rate of roughly 40 reports per 1,000 daytime population.
West Midlands Police Crime Map
Incidents mapped in West Midlands Police's service area represent the time frame between January 2016 and April 2026. Each point on the map represents an area where crimes have been recorded locally.
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Introduction to West Midlands Police's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around West Midlands Police up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of West Midlands Police's 98,417 postcodes using three area sizes for comparison:
- Within a Five-Minute Walk
- Within a Ten-Minute Walk
- Within a Fifteen-Minute Walk
Individual crime risk scores and index figures are for the 12-month period ending April 2026 unless otherwise stated.
Crime Risk Scores
West Midlands Police • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within West Midlands Police has a crime risk score of 642. This is based on analysis of 98,417 nearby areas within West Midlands Police, with "most" referring to roughly two thirds of the nearby locations.
Crime risk scores are on a scale of 1 to 1,000 and consider the severity of the crimes involved, as determined by sentencing guidelines. A score of 1 represents the lowest risk, and 1,000 the highest risk. This approach ensures that - unlike overall crime rate figures - bicycle theft is not given the same importance in West Midlands Police's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in West Midlands Police, crime risk scores are typically around 642, while in National they are average 500.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 712 (500 for National), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 751 (National 500).
Trends in Crime Risk
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Calculated via Seasonal and Trend decomposition using Loess, the Seasonality Adjusted line represents the original data with seasonality subtracted, and the Trend line has been plotted unadjusted. Overall trend direction has been identified using the Mann-Kendall trend test, and rate calculated from the slope of the best-fit line identified from linear regression.
The 10-year trend indicates an increase of 19% in West Midlands Police's crime risk score. This is potentially a strong signal of how the crime risk is evolving. Cross-referencing with major cultural events and Covid's impact during this time is advised.
Looking at the previous five years, the trend in West Midlands Police's crime risk score is down by 12%. While potentially a good indicator of the overall risk trend, analysis may offer further insight when combined with the checks mentioned above.
Over the last year, West Midlands Police's crime risk score has shown an upward trend of approximately 1.9%, indicating that the risk profile is going up. This is an extremely short time period for crime trend analysis, and caution should be exercised when interpreting this figure.
Crime Rates and Indexes
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The CrimeRate Index shows how crime rates compare against the national average.
1.0 equals the average
2.0 is double
3.0 triple
0.5 is half and
0.25 a quarter.
Highest Crime Rates
West Midlands Police • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Excluding other crime and other theft because their geographic location is often not relevant, anti-social behaviour as its definition is too wide, and bicycle theft for its specificity.
Possession of Weapons offences have a crime rate of 2.01 reports per 1,000 people in West Midlands Police, which is 2.36 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 6,833 crime reports logged by West Midlands Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, West Midlands Police recorded 27,314 reports of Vehicle Crime in West Midlands Police, resulting in a crime rate of 8.07 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 1.88.
The crime rate for Robbery is 1.67 times the national average at 1.97 reports per 1,000. This is from 6,604 crime reports reported to West Midlands Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
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Excluding other crime and other theft, anti-social behaviour, and bicycle theft, and calculated with the same STL method described in Trends in Crime Risk, using CrimeRate Index figures to identify crime types that are trending above or below the national average, and the analysis timeframe limited to the last three years.
Shoplifting offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.24 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Shoplifting CrimeRate Index was 1.04 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 19% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
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Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Robbery offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.60 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Robbery CrimeRate Index was 2.56 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 38% over this timeframe.
Burglary offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.33 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Burglary CrimeRate Index was 1.53 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 13% over this timeframe.
Violence and Sexual Offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.36 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Violence and Sexual Offences CrimeRate Index was 1.39 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 2.2% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
West Midlands Police • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Size and colour reflect the CrimeRate Index figures for each type of crime.
West Midlands Police | National | ||||||||
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| Crime Type | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | |||
| Anti-Social Behaviour | 17,084 | 5.05 | 0.36 | 941,224 | 14.13 | 1.00 | |||
| Bicycle Theft | 1,777 | 0.52 | 0.71 | 48,449 | 0.73 | 1.00 | |||
| Burglary | 14,300 | 4.22 | 1.35 | 208,612 | 3.13 | 1.00 | |||
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 25,404 | 7.52 | 1.20 | 418,651 | 6.28 | 1.00 | |||
| Drugs | 9,664 | 2.87 | 0.93 | 205,214 | 3.09 | 1.00 | |||
| Other Crime | 6,266 | 1.85 | 1.00 | 124,230 | 1.85 | 1.00 | |||
| Other Theft | 19,093 | 5.65 | 0.99 | 378,146 | 5.69 | 1.00 | |||
| Possession of Weapons | 6,833 | 2.01 | 2.36 | 56,620 | 0.85 | 1.00 | |||
| Public Order | 18,140 | 5.37 | 0.93 | 386,297 | 5.80 | 1.00 | |||
| Robbery | 6,604 | 1.97 | 1.67 | 78,386 | 1.18 | 1.00 | |||
| Shoplifting | 31,710 | 9.40 | 1.32 | 475,025 | 7.13 | 1.00 | |||
| Theft From the Person | 2,721 | 0.81 | 0.52 | 103,505 | 1.55 | 1.00 | |||
| Vehicle Crime | 27,314 | 8.07 | 1.88 | 287,068 | 4.30 | 1.00 | |||
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 133,479 | 39.55 | 1.30 | 2,024,722 | 30.40 | 1.00 | |||
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Total Crime by Year
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | |||
| 2026 | 303,305 | 89.81 | 1.25 | 4,794,925 | 71.98 | 1.00 | |||
| 2025 | 309,048 | 91.94 | 1.24 | 4,892,734 | 74.03 | 1.00 | |||
| 2024 | 326,040 | 97.88 | 1.30 | 4,937,620 | 75.43 | 1.00 | |||
| 2023 | 366,744 | 111.63 | 1.41 | 5,115,763 | 79.01 | 1.00 | |||
| 2022 | 362,973 | 111.82 | 1.46 | 4,922,645 | 76.81 | 1.00 | |||
| 2021 | 290,357 | 89.60 | 1.31 | 4,369,811 | 68.57 | 1.00 | |||
| 2020 | 254,889 | 78.73 | 1.06 | 4,707,683 | 74.16 | 1.00 | |||
| 2019 | 261,198 | 80.84 | 1.06 | 4,824,370 | 76.25 | 1.00 | |||
| 2018 | 235,152 | 73.00 | 1.03 | 4,484,151 | 71.12 | 1.00 | |||
| 2017 | 208,718 | 65.28 | 1.02 | 4,011,470 | 63.94 | 1.00 | |||
| 2016 | 62,881 | 19.72 | 1.03 | 1,195,221 | 19.07 | 1.00 | |||
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West Midlands Police: Major Towns & Cities Compared
| Town / City | Crime Count | Crime Rate | CrimeRate Index | ||||||
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| Chelmsley Wood | 2,103 | 147.13 | 2.07 | ||||||
| Fordbridge | 1,095 | 118.04 | 1.70 | ||||||
| Wednesbury | 2,364 | 112.77 | 1.58 | ||||||
| West Bromwich | 9,218 | 110.14 | 1.53 | ||||||
| Bilston | 4,135 | 105.68 | 1.48 | ||||||
| Birmingham | 130,473 | 105.03 | 1.46 | ||||||
| Bloxwich | 5,769 | 103.12 | 1.44 | ||||||
| Darlaston | 2,296 | 100.13 | 1.41 | ||||||
| Brownhills | 1,845 | 99.34 | 1.41 | ||||||
| Willenhall | 4,876 | 92.76 | 1.29 | ||||||
| Smith's Wood | 998 | 91.68 | 1.37 | ||||||
| Walsall | 28,251 | 91.03 | 1.26 | ||||||
| Tipton | 4,336 | 90.37 | 1.27 | ||||||
| Brierley Hill | 3,402 | 89.49 | 1.26 | ||||||
| Smethwick | 5,309 | 88.57 | 1.23 | ||||||
| Wolverhampton | 26,142 | 87.06 | 1.21 | ||||||
| Kingshurst | 731 | 85.92 | 1.31 | ||||||
| Oldbury | 4,314 | 84.29 | 1.18 | ||||||
| Coventry | 32,840 | 81.45 | 1.13 | ||||||
| Castle Bromwich | 896 | 74.09 | 1.10 | ||||||
| Rowley Regis | 1,471 | 73.97 | 1.08 | ||||||
| Coseley | 1,954 | 72.96 | 1.04 | ||||||
| Dudley | 25,282 | 70.66 | 0.98 | ||||||
| Stourbridge | 3,881 | 63.75 | 0.90 | ||||||
| Sedgley | 1,961 | 62.73 | 0.89 | ||||||
| Sutton Coldfield | 6,353 | 62.62 | 0.87 | ||||||
| Solihull | 8,513 | 57.93 | 0.81 | ||||||
| Halesowen | 3,473 | 54.37 | 0.76 | ||||||
| Aldridge | 908 | 53.49 | 0.79 | ||||||
| Kingswinford | 2,806 | 51.04 | 0.72 | ||||||
| Knowle and Dorridge | 680 | 35.67 | 0.54 | ||||||
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West Midlands Police Stations
| Police Station Name | Police Station Address | Description & Opening Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Birmingham Central Police Station | Snow Hill Queensway, Birmingham, B4 6AT | Monday to Sunday, 24 hours |
| Bloxwich Police Station | 1 Station St, Bloxwich, WS3 2PD | Monday to Sunday, 8am - 10pm (including bank holidays) |
| Bournville Police Station | 341 Bournville Lane, Bournville, Birmingham, B30 1QX | Monday to Sunday, 8am - 10pm (including bank holidays) |
| Brierley Hill Police Station | Bank Street, Brierley Hill, DY5 3DH | Monday to Sunday, 8am - 10pm (including bank holidays) |
| Coventry Police Station | Little Park Street, City Centre, Coventry, CV1 2JX | Monday to Sunday, 8am - 10pm (including bank holidays) |
| Solihull Police Station | Homer Road, Solihull, B91 3QL | Monday to Sunday, 8am - 10pm (including bank holidays) |
| Stechford Police Station | 338 Station Road, Stechford, B33 8RR | Monday to Sunday, 8am - 10pm (including bank holidays) |
| Sutton Coldfield Police Station | Lichfield Road, Sutton Coldfield, B74 2NR | Monday to Sunday, 8am - 10pm (including bank holidays) |
| West Bromwich Police Station | Moor Street, West Bromwich, B70 8HS | Monday to Sunday, 8am - 10pm (including bank holidays) |
| Wolverhampton Police Station | Bilston Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 3AA | Monday to Sunday, 8am - 10pm (including bank holidays) |