Photo: Mike Faherty · CC BY-SA 2.0More crimes per resident are recorded in Bloxwich than in 96% of UK towns
For its size, it sits below 16% of the 207 UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more on crime per resident. Violence recorded locally held about level in a year. It grades D− for safety on crimes police recorded inside Bloxwich’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026: #27 of 35 in West Midlands. Its police logs show 52.3 violent and sexual offences and 25.8 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Bloxwich
More crime than many places its size
Of 127 UK towns and cities of 36,000 to 70,000 people, Bloxwich has the 113th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Llanelli, Ramsgate and Torquay, higher than Margate, Havant and Scarborough. Towns its size ↓
Neighbourhood ranks
54% of Bloxwich’s residents live in a neighbourhood ranked in the highest-crime 20% of England (Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain), and 6% in the lowest-crime 30%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Bloxwich’s grade
A firm grade. Built on 12,138 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Bloxwich against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Bloxwich runs highest on vehicle crime (9.1 per 1,000 against 4.9), possession of weapons (1.9 per 1,000 against 1.1) and criminal damage & arson (12.8 per 1,000 against 7.5). Drugs and anti-social behaviour sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 2,594 | 50 | 38.6 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 716 | 13.8 | 10.3 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 663 | 12.8 | 7.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 474 | 9.1 | 4.9 |
| Other theft | not graded | 340 | 6.6 | 6.6 |
| Public order | not graded | 335 | 6.5 | 7.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 261 | 5 | 3.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 213 | 4.1 | 17.5 |
| Drugs | not graded | 168 | 3.2 | 3.8 |
| Other crime | not graded | 164 | 3.2 | 2.1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 96 | 1.9 | 1.1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 76 | 1.5 | 1.4 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 24 | 0.5 | 0.7 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 17 | 0.3 | 0.9 |
“Violent” is police.uk’s violence and sexual offences (which includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury), robbery and possession of weapons. Anti-social behaviour isn’t a crime category; shoplifting and other theft happen mostly in shops and town centres rather than to residents, so neither counts in the grade.
September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 residents. The tick on each bar is the typical (median) town among UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more.
54% of Bloxwich residents live in one of England’s highest-crime neighbourhoods
6% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 54% in the highest-crime 20%. The crime domain scores the risk of violence, burglary, theft and criminal damage where people live, so it can read differently from the town-wide rate, which counts crimes where they happened.
Bloxwich’s residents by the crime decile of their neighbourhood (LSOA, about 1,500 people) in the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (crime domain), where 1 is the highest-crime 10% of England’s neighbourhoods and 10 the lowest.
Bloxwich places 113th of 127 towns its size, the least crime first
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Metropolitan Castlereagh Lisburn and Castlereagh | 58,763 | 14.8 | 6.6 | 7.1 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 22 | Kingswinford West Midlands | 51,900 | 24.8 | 14.3 | 12.3 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 25 | Halesowen West Midlands | 60,103 | 27.2 | 14.9 | 9.9 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 44 | Stourbridge West Midlands | 56,961 | 33 | 16.1 | 16.3 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 53 | Rowley Regis West Midlands | 39,052 | 36.6 | 14.4 | 7.6 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 110 | Margate Kent | 63,315 | 56.1 | 17.5 | 17.1 | D |
| 111 | Havant Hampshire | 46,964 | 59.2 | 16.8 | 18.7 | D |
| 112 | Scarborough North Yorkshire | 59,505 | 58.8 | 17.2 | 22.9 | D |
| 113 | Bloxwich West Midlands | 51,891 | 52.3 | 25.8 | 20.9 | D− |
| 114 | Mansfield Nottinghamshire | 63,448 | 56.4 | 22.2 | 33.5 | D− |
| 115 | Clacton-on-Sea Essex | 53,190 | 61.2 | 19.6 | 18.5 | D− |
| 116 | Bootle Merseyside | 53,722 | 61.5 | 19.9 | 15.9 | D− |
| … | ||||||
| 127 | Bridgwater Somerset | 47,846 | 76.8 | 18.9 | 29.3 | D− |
Safety letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; the order here is context only.
Graded crime per 1,000 residents a year, September 2023 to August 2026, counting from the least: towns ranked near Bloxwich, and others in West Midlands.
Crime in Bloxwich per 1,000 residents
A crime isn’t a victim: one person can report several, and crimes in a town centre often involve visitors rather than residents.
And about 27 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 21 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Police in Bloxwich identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 62% of Bloxwich’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 14% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (72% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 8% of violent and 5% of household crimes reached court.
The latest outcome police.uk shows for each crime recorded in the first of the three years (September 2023 to August 2024), so most cases have closed. 4,201 crimes.
Violent crime held steady over the year
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling three-month rate, per 1,000 residents a year. In the 12 months to August 2026 against the 12 before: violent +5% (towns its size +2%), homes and vehicles +23% (towns its size -5%), shoplifting and theft -17% (towns its size -3%), anti-social behaviour -61% (towns its size -2%).
Lowest recorded crime in Bloxwich East, Bloxwich West and Blakenall
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloxwich East | 13,253 | 40 | 23.5 | |
| Bloxwich West | 13,329 | 50.9 | 22.3 | |
| Blakenall | 14,836 | 58.4 | 27.4 | |
| Birchills Leamore | 10,473 | 60.5 | 30.5 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Supermarkets | 887 | 80% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 801 | 49% shoplifting & theft |
| Petrol stations | 492 | 50% shoplifting & theft |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 193 | 46% violent |
| Bus and coach stations | 58 | 41% violent |
| Conference and exhibition centres | 34 | 59% violent |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live. police.uk places each crime at an anonymous map point; some are named for the kind of place (a supermarket, a car park), and each row adds up every place of that kind in Bloxwich. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Bloxwich’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Three people died in collisions on Bloxwich’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 339 collisions with injuries inside Bloxwich in five years, in which three people died (1 was a pedestrian and 1 was a cyclist). 74 people were killed or seriously injured: 28 on foot and 5 on a bicycle.
That is about what is typical for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more: at their median rate (1.1 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Bloxwich’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Bloxwich’s own rate (1.2) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Bloxwich had 28.5 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, about the same as the median for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more (30.3). 38% of them were on foot, against 31% across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more.
Casualties are counted where the collision happened, not where people lived: a main road through town adds through-traffic, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Seriously injured uses the Department for Transport’s adjusted figures, which even out the police forces’ different ways of recording injuries. There’s no national rate here: more than half of road deaths in England and Wales (58%) happen outside every town’s built-up area. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), 2021–2025.
Collisions police recorded inside Bloxwich’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Bloxwich
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloxwich | 51,891 | 52.3 | 25.8 | D− |
| Pelsall | 10,455 | 25.5 | 17.2 | C |
| Rushall and Shelfield | 12,844 | 32.5 | 19.4 | C− |
| Willenhall | 49,582 | 44.1 | 28.8 | D |
| Walsall | 70,777 | 62.9 | 26.3 | D− |
| Essington | 3,471 | 32.8 | 15.9 | C− |
| Clayhanger | 1,698 | 20.6 | 11 | B− |
| Great Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay | 17,647 | 24.7 | 10.8 | C+ |
Bloxwich records more graded crime per resident than 6 of its 7 neighbours; only Walsall records more. Pelsall, 1.5 miles away, records 25.5 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Bloxwich’s 52.3.
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Where crimes happen, not where victims live. police.uk places each crime at a point near where it happened. Town centres with shops, stations, a hospital and nightlife record more crime per resident, and residents of nearby villages who come in to shop or go out are part of that count.
- Bigger towns record more per resident. Across UK towns, recorded crime per resident rises steeply with size, more than in the U.S., so a city’s grade sits low against the whole UK. The “towns its size” figures show where Bloxwich sits among towns like it; they are context and don’t change the grade.
- Points are approximate. police.uk moves each point to the nearest of a set of anonymous map points, so crimes near the edge of the built-up area can fall either side of it.
Questions about safety in Bloxwich
Is Bloxwich safe?
Police recorded 52.3 violent and sexual offences and 25.8 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Bloxwich’s built-up area). That earns a D− for safety: less crime per resident than 4% of UK towns. Among 127 UK towns of 36,000 to 70,000 people, Bloxwich is 113th from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Bloxwich?
By council ward, Bloxwich East, Bloxwich West and Blakenall record the least violent and household crime per resident: 40, 50.9 and 58.4 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 60.5 in Birchills Leamore.
Is crime going up in Bloxwich?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime held steady, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 23%, shoplifting and theft fell 17% and anti-social behaviour fell 61%. Across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Bloxwich?
Violence & sexual offences: 2,594 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (716) and criminal damage & arson (663), with 213 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Bloxwich compare with Wolverhampton?
Wolverhampton records 50.6 violent and sexual offences and 21.7 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Bloxwich’s 52.3 and 25.8, over the same three years.
Sources: data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · MHCLG English Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain by LSOA (residents from ONS Census 2021) · Department for Transport road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions 2021–2025, points inside the built-up-area boundary · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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