Ward safety · Birmingham · data through July 2026

How safe is your Birmingham ward?

SafeRoute scores every Birmingham ward 0–100 from street-level incidents reported to West Midlands Police — severity-weighted, within 1 km of each ward's centre, normalised against Birmingham. Higher is safer. The same data powers the SafeRoute app's crime-aware walking routes.

These figures describe reported crime around each ward's centre — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. Birmingham median index: 55/100.

All 69 Birmingham wards, safest first

Ward (safest first)	Index	Band	Incidents
Sutton Mere Green	93/100	Low risk	18
Sutton Four Oaks	91/100	Low risk	24
Sutton Walmley & Minworth	91/100	Low risk	22
Sutton Roughley	90/100	Low risk	21
Sutton Wylde Green	83/100	Low risk	64
Sutton Vesey	77/100	Low risk	72
Hall Green South	74/100	Moderate	72
Sutton Reddicap	73/100	Moderate	86
Sutton Trinity	71/100	Moderate	103
Harborne	69/100	Moderate	116
Nechells	69/100	Moderate	97
Bartley Green	66/100	Moderate	101
Druids Heath & Monyhull	66/100	Moderate	106
Perry Barr	66/100	Moderate	111
Bournville & Cotteridge	65/100	Moderate	106
Pype Hayes	65/100	Moderate	108
Castle Vale	64/100	Moderate	117
Frankley Great Park	64/100	Moderate	116
Handsworth Wood	64/100	Moderate	115
King's Norton South	62/100	Moderate	120
Rubery & Rednal	62/100	Moderate	135
Quinton	61/100	Moderate	147
Billesley	60/100	Moderate	130
Longbridge & West Heath	60/100	Moderate	139
Oscott	60/100	Moderate	132
Shard End	60/100	Moderate	138
Weoley & Selly Oak	60/100	Moderate	134
Northfield	59/100	Moderate	156
Stirchley	58/100	Moderate	152
Hall Green North	57/100	Moderate	152
Perry Common	57/100	Moderate	149
King's Norton North	56/100	Moderate	159
Allens Cross	55/100	Moderate	175
Bournbrook & Selly Park	55/100	Moderate	171
Brandwood & King's Heath	55/100	Moderate	191
Garretts Green	55/100	Moderate	171
Highter's Heath	55/100	Moderate	180
Tyseley & Hay Mills	55/100	Moderate	176
Yardley East	55/100	Moderate	170
Sheldon	54/100	Moderate	177
Bromford & Hodge Hill	53/100	Moderate	233
Glebe Farm & Tile Cross	53/100	Moderate	182
Moseley	53/100	Moderate	196
Small Heath	51/100	Moderate	195
South Yardley	50/100	Moderate	208
Stockland Green	49/100	Elevated	214
Ward End	48/100	Elevated	208
Gravelly Hill	47/100	Elevated	233
Alum Rock	46/100	Elevated	238
Kingstanding	46/100	Elevated	242
Acocks Green	45/100	Elevated	265
Bordesley Green	45/100	Elevated	273
Erdington	45/100	Elevated	291
Heartlands	45/100	Elevated	232
Balsall Heath West	43/100	Elevated	283
Holyhead	43/100	Elevated	286
Sparkhill	43/100	Elevated	260
Aston	42/100	Elevated	267
North Edgbaston	42/100	Elevated	285
Soho & Jewellery Quarter	42/100	Elevated	291
Newtown	41/100	Elevated	301
Sparkbrook & Balsall Heath East	40/100	Elevated	320
Yardley West & Stechford	40/100	Elevated	291
Birchfield	34/100	Elevated	385
Edgbaston	34/100	Elevated	429
Lozells	33/100	Elevated	417
Handsworth	31/100	Elevated	451
Ladywood	27/100	Elevated	592
Bordesley & Highgate	24/100	High risk	817

Methodology

Each street-level incident published by West Midlands Police is weighted by severity — violence counts for more than shoplifting. For every ward we sum weighted incidents within 1 km of its centre, and normalise against Birmingham's own rates onto a 0–100 index, higher = safer. Boundaries are the 69 Birmingham City Council wards from the ONS ward set. The scale is calibrated to Birmingham and cannot be read against another city's number — a Birmingham 55 and a London 55 both mean “typical for this city”, not the same amount of crime. data.police.uk publishes one calendar month at a time, so these pages describe a single month rather than a year, and a typical Birmingham ward carries fewer incidents than a typical inner-London one — which means figures here move more from month to month, and small differences between neighbouring wards are not meaningful. Three ward centres (Sutton Vesey, Sutton Walmley & Minworth, Edgbaston) sit in large parks or green belt and have been moved to the built-up part of the same ward, because a circle drawn over parkland reads as safe when it is really empty. Time-of-day charts use the category mix, as data.police.uk does not publish incident times. Pages regenerate as new data is published.

The index compares areas within Birmingham. It is not comparable between cities: each police force publishes a different set of offences over a different period — Birmingham's figures cannot be read against another city's on the same 0–100 scale.