Total Crime Rate
256.2 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
131.5 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Meyrick Walk area has the 8th highest crime rate of 53 local areas in Edgbaston , and the 307th highest crime rate of 3,059 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 Meyrick Walk (B16 9AJ) in the last 12 months was 256.2 per 1,000 residents and was 80.3% 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 49 offences recorded. The least common crime was Bicycle theft with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Other crime ( 100.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Other theft ( -42.9% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 58 (≈ 131.5 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were flat ( 0.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -8.7% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Meyrick Walk (B16 9AJ), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Stirling Road, where police recorded 74 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 | Vehicle crime | Bellis Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Daisy Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Stirling Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Reservoir Retreat | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Leslie Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Leslie Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hickman Gardens | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Reservoir Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Daisy Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Daisy Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hartley Place | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Stirling Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hartley Place | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Carlyle Road | Under investigation |
| 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 | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Possession of weapons | Clipper View | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Mariner Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Mariner Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hartley Place | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Stirling Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Wyndham Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hartley Place | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Meyrick Walk | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Waterworks Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Possession of weapons | Waterworks Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Possession of weapons | Waterworks Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Waterworks Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Waterworks Road | Under investigation |
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