Ward safety · Birmingham · data through August 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: 58/100.

All 69 Birmingham wards, safest first

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. data.police.uk does not publish incident times, so time-of-day patterns are not shown. 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.