Manor Arms Public House · Photo: Derek Bennett · CC BY-SA 2.0Rushall and Shelfield stands out for vehicle crime: 2.9 times the rate of a typical town its size
More crime per resident is recorded in 35% of the 645 UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Taking everything together, Rushall and Shelfield scores C− (#16 of 35 in West Midlands): more crime per resident than 81% of UK towns, measured on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area between September 2023 and August 2026. Violence recorded locally climbed 9% in a year. Recorded violent and sexual offences ran at 32.5 per 1,000 residents a year, and burglary, vehicle crime and damage at 19.4.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Rushall and Shelfield
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 9% more violent crime per resident in Rushall and Shelfield than in the year before; across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage rose 7% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 376 UK towns of 9,000 to 17,000 people, Rushall and Shelfield has the 265th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Armthorpe, Mildenhall and Epping, higher than Addlestone, Pyle and Wick. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind Rushall and Shelfield’s C−
A firm grade. Built on 2,001 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Rushall and Shelfield 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, Rushall and Shelfield runs highest on vehicle crime (8 per 1,000 against 2.8), possession of weapons (1.3 per 1,000 against 0.7) and burglary (3.5 per 1,000 against 2.4). Shoplifting and anti-social behaviour sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 399 | 31.1 | 30.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 106 | 8.3 | 6.2 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 103 | 8 | 2.8 |
| Public order | not graded | 59 | 4.6 | 5.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 57 | 4.4 | 12.4 |
| Other theft | not graded | 47 | 3.7 | 4.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 45 | 3.5 | 2.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 43 | 3.3 | 6.1 |
| Other crime | not graded | 25 | 1.9 | 1.8 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 17 | 1.3 | 0.7 |
| Drugs | not graded | 16 | 1.2 | 1.9 |
| Robbery | Violent | 12 | 0.9 | 0.5 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 7 | 0.5 | 0.3 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 3 | 0.2 | 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.
How Rushall and Shelfield’s neighbourhoods rank in England
0% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 11% 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.
Rushall and Shelfield’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.
265th of 376: Rushall and Shelfield among towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greasby Merseyside | 9,175 | 11.3 | 3.7 | 2.5 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 9 | Streetly West Midlands | 16,790 | 11.2 | 9 | 5.3 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 57 | Pheasey West Midlands | 9,498 | 18 | 10.6 | 2.8 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 197 | Aldridge West Midlands | 15,827 | 24 | 18.4 | 15.5 | C |
| 198 | Pelsall West Midlands | 10,455 | 25.5 | 17.2 | 10.1 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 262 | Addlestone Surrey | 13,748 | 35.8 | 15.9 | 17.2 | C− |
| 263 | Pyle Mid Glamorgan | 14,075 | 40.1 | 11.6 | 8.6 | C− |
| 264 | Wick West Sussex | 13,231 | 37.6 | 14.2 | 18.3 | C− |
| 265 | Rushall and Shelfield West Midlands | 12,844 | 32.5 | 19.4 | 8.4 | C− |
| 266 | Hayle Cornwall | 9,040 | 36.7 | 15.3 | 16.4 | C− |
| 267 | Heysham Lancashire | 16,593 | 36.7 | 15.6 | 7.3 | C− |
| 268 | East Ardsley West Yorkshire | 15,238 | 38 | 14.6 | 9 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 376 | Haverfordwest Dyfed | 12,088 | 91.4 | 28.6 | 32.3 | 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 Rushall and Shelfield, and others in West Midlands.
Crime in Rushall and Shelfield 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 20 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 8 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
How crime in Rushall and Shelfield has moved
“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 +9% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +7% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft +15% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour -40% (towns its size -4%).
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 70% of Rushall and Shelfield’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 12% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (77% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 6% of violent and 2% 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. 689 crimes.
Where in Rushall and Shelfield police recorded crime
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Supermarkets | 171 | 81% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 133 | 32% homes & vehicles |
| Petrol stations | 61 | 33% violent |
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 Rushall and Shelfield. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Two people died in collisions on Rushall and Shelfield’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 55 collisions with injuries inside Rushall and Shelfield in five years, in which two people died. 29 people were killed or seriously injured: 7 on foot and 1 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 Rushall and Shelfield’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Rushall and Shelfield’s own rate (3.1) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Rushall and Shelfield had 45.2 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people (23.8).
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 Rushall and Shelfield’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Rushall and Shelfield
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rushall and Shelfield | 12,844 | 32.5 | 19.4 | C− |
| Pelsall | 10,455 | 25.5 | 17.2 | C |
| Aldridge | 15,827 | 24 | 18.4 | C |
| Bloxwich | 51,891 | 52.3 | 25.8 | D− |
| Clayhanger | 1,698 | 20.6 | 11 | B− |
| Brownhills | 21,238 | 44.3 | 24.7 | D |
| Walsall | 70,777 | 62.9 | 26.3 | D− |
| Stonnall | 1,340 | 14.2 | 9.2 | B+ |
Rushall and Shelfield records more graded crime per resident than 4 of its 7 neighbours. Pelsall, 1.2 miles away, records 25.5 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Rushall and Shelfield’s 32.5.
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 Rushall and Shelfield 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 Rushall and Shelfield
Is Rushall and Shelfield safe?
Police recorded 32.5 violent and sexual offences and 19.4 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Rushall and Shelfield’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 19% of UK towns. Among 376 UK towns of 9,000 to 17,000 people, Rushall and Shelfield is 265th from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Rushall and Shelfield?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 9%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 7%, shoplifting and theft rose 15% and anti-social behaviour fell 40%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Rushall and Shelfield?
Violence & sexual offences: 399 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (106) and vehicle crime (103), with 57 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Rushall and Shelfield 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 Rushall and Shelfield’s 32.5 and 19.4, 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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