Total Crime Rate

99.1 per 1,000 8/10 · High

All offences · Oct 2024 - Sep 2025
Latest update: 05.12.2025 Crime figures are sourced from data.police.uk and are typically published with a 3-month delay.
Crime rate per 1000 residents
  • All crimes 99.1 8/10
  • Violence and sexual offences 28.3 6/10
  • Other crime 23.6 10/10
  • Anti-social behaviour 18.9 7/10
  • Criminal damage and arson 14.2 8/10
  • Burglary 4.7 5/10
  • Other theft 4.7 5/10
  • Possession of weapons 4.7 7/10
  • Bicycle theft 0.0 1/10
  • Drugs 0.0 1/10
  • Public order 0.0 1/10
  • Robbery 0.0 1/10
  • Shoplifting 0.0 1/10
  • Theft from the person 0.0 1/10
  • Vehicle crime 0.0 1/10
Values shown per 1,000 residents · Oct 2024 - Sep 2025 · Rating compares this oa to UK peers of the same type.
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Crime overview

Kingsbury Road area has the 15th lowest crime rate of 31 local areas in Castle Vale , and the 1392nd highest crime rate of 3,083 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 Kingsbury Road (B35 6AH) in the last 12 months was 99.1 per 1,000 residents and was 23.0% lower than the Castle Vale average (128.6 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 6 offences recorded. The least common crime was Burglary with 1 case , unchanged from 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Other crime ( 150.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Other theft ( -66.7% YoY).

Violent crimes totalled 7 (≈ 33.0 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -53.3% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has rising ( 21.6% comparing early vs recent averages) .

In the area around Kingsbury Road (B35 6AH), the main crime hotspot is near Lanark Croft. Police recorded 144 crimes here, including 30 violent or public-order offences. All these locations are within roughly 0.3 miles.

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Crime Over Time in Kingsbury Road area

MonthCrimeLocation*Last Outcome
Sep 2025Shoplifting Brabazon Grove Under investigation
Sep 2025Shoplifting Brabazon Grove Under investigation
Sep 2025Shoplifting Lanark Croft Under investigation
Sep 2025Shoplifting Lanark Croft Under investigation
Sep 2025Shoplifting Lanark Croft Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Lanark Croft Under investigation
Sep 2025Shoplifting Brabazon Grove Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Shoplifting Brabazon Grove Under investigation
Sep 2025Shoplifting Brabazon Grove Under investigation
Sep 2025Shoplifting Brabazon Grove Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Anti-social behaviour Lanark Croft
Sep 2025Shoplifting Brabazon Grove Under investigation
Sep 2025Shoplifting Brabazon Grove Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Shoplifting Brabazon Grove Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Shoplifting Brabazon Grove Under investigation
Sep 2025Shoplifting Brabazon Grove Under investigation
Sep 2025Shoplifting Brabazon Grove Under investigation
Sep 2025Shoplifting Brabazon Grove Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Shoplifting Lanark Croft Under investigation
Sep 2025Shoplifting Lanark Croft Under investigation
Sep 2025Shoplifting Brabazon Grove Under investigation
Sep 2025Criminal damage and arson Cranwell Way Under investigation
Sep 2025Vehicle crime Johnson Drive Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Burglary Bore Road Under investigation
Sep 2025Burglary Bovingdon Road Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Bovingdon Road Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Drugs Abingdon Way Local resolution

Data Sources

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