Total Crime Rate
304.6 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
116.8 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Parker Street area has the 6th highest crime rate of 53 local areas in Edgbaston , and the 221st highest crime rate of 3,059 local areas in Birmingham .
This postcode sits in a local crime hotspot. Overall crime levels here are significantly higher than in the surrounding streets and the wider area.
The overall crime rate in the area around Parker Street (B16 9AE) in the last 12 months was 304.6 per 1,000 residents and was 114.3% higher than the Edgbaston average (142.1 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 36 offences recorded. The least common crime was Bicycle theft with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Possession of weapons ( 100.0% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2025.
Violent crimes totalled 46 (≈ 116.8 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 15.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -26.6% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Parker Street (B16 9AE), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Plough And Harrow Road, where police recorded 82 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Hartley Place (38 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Birmingham| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Hartley Place | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Bellis Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Bellis Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Wyndham Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Stirling Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Stirling Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Stirling Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Hartley Place | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Hartley Place | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Meyrick Walk | — |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Hartley Place | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hartley Place | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hartley Place | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hartley Place | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hartley Place | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hartley Place | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hartley Place | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hartley Place | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Meyrick Walk | — |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Meyrick Walk | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Reservoir Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Waterworks Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Waterworks Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Waterworks Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Possession of weapons | Waterworks Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Possession of weapons | Waterworks Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Waterworks Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Parking Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
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