Total Crime Rate
279.7 per 1,000
All offences · Nov 2024 - Oct 2025Violent Crime Rate
152.9 per 1,000
Nov 2024 - Oct 2025Stratford Road area has the 3rd highest crime rate of 35 local areas in Sparkbrook & Balsall Heath East , and the 268th highest crime rate of 3,079 local areas in Birmingham .
Crime levels at this postcode are much higher than in the adjoining streets, suggesting that most neighbouring areas are relatively safer than this one.
The overall crime rate in the area around Stratford Road (B11 4AA) in the last 12 months was 279.7 per 1,000 residents and was 240.9% higher than the Sparkbrook & Balsall Heath East average (82.0 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 45 offences recorded. The least common crime was Other crime with 1 case , unchanged from 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Other theft ( 140.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Drugs ( -71.4% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 76 (≈ 152.9 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -21.6% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has flat ( 1.8% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Stratford Road (B11 4AA), the main crime hotspot is near Parking Area. Police recorded 101 crimes here, including 58 violent or public-order offences. All these locations are within roughly 0.3 miles.
View Crime In Sparkbrook & Balsall Heath East| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Medlicott Road | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Public order | Parking Area | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Grantham Road | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Webster Close | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Palmerston Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Oct 2025 | Possession of weapons | Palmerston Road | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Oct 2025 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Oct 2025 | Public order | Parking Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Public order | Parking Area | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Oct 2025 | Vehicle crime | Trenville Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Other theft | Parking Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Other theft | Parking Area | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Oct 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Parking Area | — |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Gladstone Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Gladstone Road | Action to be taken by another organisation |
| Oct 2025 | Other theft | Gladstone Road | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Public order | Whitbourne Close | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Grantham Road | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Criminal damage and arson | Swallow Close | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Burglary | Whitbourne Close | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Beach Brook Close | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Melrose Avenue | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Vehicle crime | Conway Road | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Poplar Road | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Vehicle crime | Poplar Road | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Other theft | Poplar Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Burglary | Poplar Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Beach Brook Close | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Beach Brook Close | Under investigation |
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