Total Crime Rate

90.6 per 1,000 7/10 · 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 90.6 7/10
  • Violence and sexual offences 36.9 7/10
  • Other theft 16.8 9/10
  • Anti-social behaviour 13.4 6/10
  • Criminal damage and arson 10.1 7/10
  • Other crime 10.1 9/10
  • Vehicle crime 3.4 3/10
  • Bicycle theft 0.0 1/10
  • Burglary 0.0 1/10
  • Drugs 0.0 1/10
  • Possession of weapons 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
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

Masefield Road area has the 32nd lowest crime rate of 84 local areas in Bushbury South & Low Hill , and the 300th highest crime rate of 784 local areas in Wolverhampton .

Neighbouring streets tend to have noticeably higher crime levels than this postcode. Crime here is lower than the average for the surrounding output areas.

The overall crime rate in the area around Masefield Road (WV10 8SE) in the last 12 months was 90.6 per 1,000 residents and was 9.5% lower than the Bushbury South & Low Hill average (100.1 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 11 offences recorded. The least common crime was Vehicle crime with 1 case , unchanged from 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Other crime ( 200.0% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2024.

Violent crimes totalled 11 (≈ 36.9 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -15.4% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -43.9% comparing early vs recent averages) .

In the area around Masefield Road (WV10 8SE), the main crime hotspot is near Dryden Road. Police recorded 55 crimes here, including 43 violent or public-order offences. All these locations are within roughly 0.3 miles.

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Crime Over Time in Masefield Road area

MonthCrimeLocation*Last Outcome
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Betjeman Place Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Ruskin Road Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Vehicle crime Byron Road Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Whistler Grove Under investigation
Sep 2025Criminal damage and arson Keats Grove Under investigation
Sep 2025Criminal damage and arson Chesterton Road Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Betjeman Place Under investigation
Sep 2025Vehicle crime Wordsworth Road Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Burglary Ruskin Road Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Ruskin Road Under investigation
Sep 2025Vehicle crime Keats Grove Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Ruskin Road Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Betjeman Place Under investigation
Sep 2025Criminal damage and arson Wordsworth Road Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Criminal damage and arson Betjeman Place Under investigation
Sep 2025Possession of weapons Chesterton Road Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Shoplifting Chesterton Road Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Vehicle crime Chesterton Road Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Burglary Newman Road Under investigation
Sep 2025Possession of weapons Keats Grove Under investigation
Sep 2025Criminal damage and arson Carlyle Grove Under investigation
Sep 2025Criminal damage and arson Carlyle Grove Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Keats Grove Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Keats Road Under investigation
Sep 2025Criminal damage and arson Keats Road Under investigation
Sep 2025Other crime Ken Purchase Gardens Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Larkin Close Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Larkin Close Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Tennyson Road Under investigation
Sep 2025Other crime Keats Grove Under investigation

Data Sources

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