At a glance
- Source is police.uk, the Home Office open-data service; counts cover roughly a one-mile radius.
- Pick a named area below or enter any Birmingham postcode.
- Data is published monthly and lags about two months behind.
- The first load for a new location fetches each month live and can take half a minute; after that it is cached.
How the areas compare
Each circle is one of ten Birmingham areas; its size and colour show how much crime was recorded there in the latest published month. Filter by offence type to see where, say, vehicle crime or burglary concentrates, and click a circle to load that area's 12-month trend below.
Counts cover about a mile around each point, so areas overlap slightly and the city centre always records most. Source: police.uk.
Pick an area
Reading the trend honestly
Three caveats keep this honest. Counts follow footfall, so the city centre always records several times more than a residential suburb without being proportionally more dangerous to live in. Recorded crime is not the same as committed crime; a rise can reflect more reporting, not more offending. And single-month spikes are usually noise, which is why the twelve-month line matters more than any one point on it.
For a snapshot of exactly where crimes were recorded near you in the latest month, use our crime map; this page is about direction over time.
Source: police.uk (Home Office), Open Government Licence v3.0. Locations are anonymised approximate points; categories are the national recording categories.