War memorial outside St Giles' Church, Rowley Regis · Photo: AtticTapestry · CC BY-SA 4.0Rowley Regis records more crime per resident than 79% of UK towns
With 234 cases in the 12 months to August 2026, vehicle crime reaches 6 per 1,000 residents in Rowley Regis, well above the typical 2.8. Police counts work out at 36.6 violent and sexual offences and 14.4 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents annually. On the record of crimes police recorded inside the town’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026, it takes C− for safety: #14 of 35 in West Midlands.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Rowley Regis
About the middle for a town its size
Of 184 UK towns of 27,000 to 53,000 people, Rowley Regis has the 95th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Leyland, Witham and Newton Abbot, higher than Melton Mowbray, Royal Leamington Spa and Sedgley. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind Rowley Regis’s C−
A firm grade. Built on 5,975 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Rowley Regis 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, Rowley Regis runs highest on vehicle crime (6 per 1,000 against 2.8) and possession of weapons (1.2 per 1,000 against 0.7). 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 | 1,315 | 33.7 | 30.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 234 | 6 | 2.8 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 213 | 5.5 | 6.1 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 205 | 5.2 | 6.2 |
| Public order | not graded | 181 | 4.6 | 5.4 |
| Other theft | not graded | 123 | 3.1 | 4.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 99 | 2.5 | 12.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 79 | 2 | 2.4 |
| Other crime | not graded | 66 | 1.7 | 1.8 |
| Drugs | not graded | 48 | 1.2 | 1.9 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 48 | 1.2 | 0.7 |
| Robbery | Violent | 34 | 0.9 | 0.5 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 6 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 2 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
“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 of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Police in Rowley Regis identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 59% of Rowley Regis’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 13% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (73% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 6% of violent and 4% 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. 2,169 crimes.
How Rowley Regis’s neighbourhoods rank in England
8% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 21% 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.
Rowley Regis’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.
Crime in Rowley Regis 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 13 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 9 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Lowest recorded crime in Oldbury, Tividale and Blackheath; highest in Langley
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oldbury | 7,872 | 29.1 | 12.1 | |
| Tividale | 10,847 | 30.2 | 13.2 | |
| Blackheath | 3,604 | 33.2 | 13 | |
| Rowley | 11,797 | 40.3 | 14.5 | |
| Langley | 4,274 | 60.8 | 22.8 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Supermarkets | 160 | 49% shoplifting & theft |
| Parks and open spaces | 49 | 61% violent |
| Hospitals | 39 | 41% violent |
| Car parks | 28 | 43% violent |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Langley records 1.8× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Rowley Regis. 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 Rowley Regis. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Rowley Regis’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Violent crime held steady over the year
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling six-month rate, per 1,000 residents a year (longer windows for smaller places, where a few crimes swing a month). In the 12 months to August 2026 against the 12 before: violent +2% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +0% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft +34% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour -54% (towns its size -4%).
Towns its size: Rowley Regis comes 95th of 184
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heswall Merseyside | 29,082 | 14.3 | 5.5 | 3.8 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 42 | Kingswinford West Midlands | 51,900 | 24.8 | 14.3 | 12.3 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 92 | Melton Mowbray Leicestershire | 27,451 | 35.1 | 15.7 | 17.3 | C− |
| 93 | Royal Leamington Spa Warwickshire | 51,321 | 34 | 16.8 | 19.3 | C− |
| 94 | Sedgley West Midlands | 31,976 | 32 | 19 | 7.8 | C− |
| 95 | Rowley Regis West Midlands | 39,052 | 36.6 | 14.4 | 7.6 | C− |
| 96 | Yate Gloucestershire | 28,352 | 38.4 | 12.7 | 13.2 | C− |
| 97 | Newbury Berkshire | 42,262 | 37.1 | 14.1 | 20.3 | C− |
| 98 | Warwick Warwickshire | 36,673 | 34.1 | 17.2 | 18.6 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 155 | Brierley Hill West Midlands | 32,311 | 47.5 | 22.6 | 29.3 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 157 | Tipton West Midlands | 47,202 | 49.1 | 21.6 | 12 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 159 | Oldbury West Midlands | 45,188 | 49.6 | 22.7 | 17.9 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 184 | Great Yarmouth Norfolk | 28,979 | 105 | 32.9 | 33.7 | 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 Rowley Regis, and others in West Midlands.
Two people died in collisions on Rowley Regis’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 188 collisions with injuries inside Rowley Regis in five years, in which two people died (1 was a pedestrian). 47 people were killed or seriously injured: 17 on foot and 5 on a bicycle.
That is about what is typical for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people: at their median rate (0.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Rowley Regis’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Rowley Regis’s own rate (1.0) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Rowley Regis had 24.1 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, about the same as the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people (23.8). 36% of them were on foot, against 30% across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
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 Rowley Regis’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Rowley Regis
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rowley Regis | 39,052 | 36.6 | 14.4 | C− |
| Blackheath | 6,950 | 63.9 | 22.1 | D− |
| Oldbury | 45,188 | 49.6 | 22.7 | D |
| Dudley | 64,277 | 61.2 | 27 | D− |
| Cradley Heath | 18,819 | 52.5 | 20.2 | D |
| Tipton | 47,202 | 49.1 | 21.6 | D |
| Halesowen | 60,103 | 27.2 | 14.9 | C |
| Smethwick | 56,343 | 51.1 | 20.1 | D |
Rowley Regis records more graded crime per resident than 1 of its 7 neighbours. Halesowen, 3.1 miles away, records 27.2 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Rowley Regis’s 36.6.
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 Rowley Regis 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 Rowley Regis
Is Rowley Regis safe?
Police recorded 36.6 violent and sexual offences and 14.4 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Rowley Regis’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 21% of UK towns. Among 184 UK towns of 27,000 to 53,000 people, Rowley Regis is 95th from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Rowley Regis?
By council ward, Oldbury, Tividale and Blackheath record the least violent and household crime per resident: 29.1, 30.2 and 33.2 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 60.8 in Langley.
Is crime going up in Rowley Regis?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime held steady, burglary, vehicle crime and damage held steady, shoplifting and theft rose 34% and anti-social behaviour fell 54%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Rowley Regis?
Violence & sexual offences: 1,315 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came vehicle crime (234) and shoplifting (213), with 99 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Rowley Regis compare with West Bromwich?
West Bromwich records 54.4 violent and sexual offences and 24.7 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Rowley Regis’s 36.6 and 14.4, 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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