Smethwick

England · E14001478

12,253 crimes recorded in the last 12 months – violence & sexual offences is the most common, rising versus the year before.

Recorded crimes (last 12m)
12,253
Most common
Violence & sexual offences rising
5,459 reports
Data to
Apr 2026

Crimes per month

1,247/mo peak0 baseline
May 23Apr 26

By type (last 12 months)

CategoryReportsShare
Violence & sexual offencesrising5,45944.6%
Shopliftingrising1,1859.7%
Vehicle crimefalling9197.5%
Criminal damage & arsonfalling8416.9%
Public orderfalling7065.8%
Other theftrising6985.7%
Anti-social behaviourfalling6285.1%
Drugsrising5374.4%
Burglaryfalling4493.7%
Possession of weaponsrising2582.1%
Robberyfalling2412.0%
Other crimefalling2121.7%
Theft from the personrising820.7%
Bicycle theftrising380.3%

The open street-level feed merges violence and sexual offences into one category. Splitting them (e.g. homicide vs sexual assault) needs ONS force-level tables, modelled to constituency in a later step.

Partial coverageSource: Street-level crime, data.police.uk (Home Office)· How we know this
Source
Street-level crime
Publisher
data.police.uk (Home Office)
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0
Retrieved
2026-09-18
How it's mapped
Aggregated from smaller areas to the constituency on a best-fit basis.

Some areas or categories are missing from this source, so treat it as partial.

Source: data.police.uk, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.