Total Crime Rate
60.5 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
43.5 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Fairholme Road area has the 33rd lowest crime rate of 111 local areas in Bromford & Hodge Hill , and the 1064th lowest crime rate of 3,059 local areas in Birmingham .
This postcode forms a relatively safe pocket compared with the surrounding streets. Neighbouring areas record much higher crime levels, even though this postcode itself remains comparatively low-crime.
The overall crime rate in the area around Fairholme Road (B36 8HL) in the last 12 months was 60.5 per 1,000 residents and was 50.9% lower than the Bromford & Hodge Hill average (123.1 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 21 offences recorded. The least common crime was Burglary with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Vehicle crime ( 100.0% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2025.
Violent crimes totalled 23 (≈ 43.5 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 9.5% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -78.4% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Fairholme Road (B36 8HL), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Bromford Way, where police recorded 68 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Farnhurst Road (48 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 | Farnhurst Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Old Bromford Lane | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Radstock Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Radstock Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Lindale Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Lindale Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Reynoldstown Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Asholme Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Asholme Close | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Asholme Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Gilpin Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Gilpin Close | — |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Relko Drive | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Relko Drive | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Old Bromford Lane | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Old Bromford Lane | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Possession of weapons | Asholme Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Old Bromford Lane | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Bromford Way | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Old Bromford Lane | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Farnhurst Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Farnhurst Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Bromford Way | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Bromford Way | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Bromford Way | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Farnhurst Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Fairholme Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Fairholme Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Fairholme Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Pan Croft | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
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