Total Crime Rate
61.8 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
30.9 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Rollason Road area has the 16th lowest crime rate of 44 local areas in St. James's , and the 418th highest crime rate of 1,012 local areas in Dudley .
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 Rollason Road (DY2 8ND) in the last 12 months was 61.8 per 1,000 residents and was 60.1% lower than the St. James's average (154.7 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 9 offences recorded. The least common crime was Burglary with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Shoplifting ( 300.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Violence and sexual offences ( -30.8% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 13 (≈ 30.9 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -18.8% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -67.8% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Rollason Road (DY2 8ND), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Buffery Road, where police recorded 40 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Park Hill Street (16 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Dudley| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Buffery Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Buffery Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Selborne Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Shedden Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Shedden Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Westfield Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Westfield Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Rollason Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Buffery Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Buffery Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Buffery Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Blackacre Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Buffery Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Buffery Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Grainger Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Douglass Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Buffery Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Buffery Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Buffery Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Perry Close | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Blackacre Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Buffery Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Spring Gardens | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Dando Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Lloyd Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Lloyd Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Lloyd Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Lloyd Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Spring Gardens | Unable to prosecute suspect |
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