Photo: Robin Stott · CC BY-SA 2.0On burglary, vehicle crime and damage, Solihull has a higher rate per resident than nine in ten UK towns
Shoplifting runs at 23.1 per 1,000 residents in Solihull, against 10.3 in a typical town its size: police recorded 2,488 in the 12 months to August 2026. The town’s overall Safety Grade is C− (#12 of 35 in West Midlands): more crime per resident than 76% of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. Add to that, recorded violence rose 11% in a year. Police counts work out at 28.4 violent and sexual offences and 19.2 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents annually.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Solihull
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 11% more violent crime per resident in Solihull than in the year before; across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage rose 8% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Less crime than most places its size
Of 66 UK towns and cities of 75,000 to 145,000 people, Solihull has the 10th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Aylesbury, Redditch and Cheltenham, higher than Bracknell, Worthing and Southport. Towns its size ↓
Many neighbourhoods rank low for crime nationally
The government’s Indices of Deprivation 2025 rank every neighbourhood in England on recorded crime. 21% of Solihull’s residents live in one of the lowest-crime 10%, and 6% in one of the highest-crime 20%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Solihull’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 15,359 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Solihull 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, Solihull runs highest on shoplifting (23.1 per 1,000 against 10.3), vehicle crime (7.8 per 1,000 against 4.9) and robbery (2 per 1,000 against 1.4). 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 | 2,837 | 26.3 | 38.6 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 2,488 | 23.1 | 10.3 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 841 | 7.8 | 4.9 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 711 | 6.6 | 7.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 570 | 5.3 | 7.4 |
| Other theft | not graded | 544 | 5 | 6.6 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 478 | 4.4 | 3.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 448 | 4.2 | 17.5 |
| Robbery | Violent | 211 | 2 | 1.4 |
| Drugs | not graded | 152 | 1.4 | 3.8 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 148 | 1.4 | 1.1 |
| Other crime | not graded | 136 | 1.3 | 2.1 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 52 | 0.5 | 0.9 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 46 | 0.4 | 0.7 |
“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.
Solihull is 10th of 66 UK towns of 75,000 to 145,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harrogate North Yorkshire | 75,522 | 27.3 | 10.5 | 13.7 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 6 | Royal Sutton Coldfield West Midlands | 93,392 | 26.6 | 17.5 | 17.8 | C |
| 7 | Bracknell Berkshire | 78,662 | 31.9 | 13.5 | 18.4 | C |
| 8 | Worthing West Sussex | 111,635 | 34.1 | 12.6 | 24.3 | C |
| 9 | Southport Merseyside | 94,438 | 37.2 | 9.8 | 12.7 | C |
| 10 | Solihull West Midlands | 107,754 | 28.4 | 19.2 | 26.7 | C− |
| 11 | Shrewsbury Shropshire | 76,013 | 37.4 | 12.6 | 19.1 | C− |
| 12 | Wallasey Merseyside | 85,619 | 38.2 | 12 | 7 | C− |
| 13 | Tamworth Staffordshire | 76,074 | 36.8 | 14.7 | 13.4 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 57 | West Bromwich West Midlands | 103,099 | 54.4 | 24.7 | 17.4 | D− |
| … | ||||||
| 66 | Doncaster South Yorkshire | 87,440 | 72.6 | 38.2 | 43.3 | 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 Solihull, and others in West Midlands.
1 in 5 Solihull residents lives in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
49% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 6% 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.
Solihull’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.
How crime in Solihull has moved
“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 +11% (towns its size +2%), homes and vehicles +8% (towns its size -5%), shoplifting and theft +9% (towns its size -3%), anti-social behaviour -29% (towns its size -2%).
Crime in Solihull 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 19 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 29 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 Shirley East, Silhill and Olton; highest in St Alphege
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shirley East | 12,018 | 18.6 | 14.1 | |
| Silhill | 12,562 | 19.3 | 13.4 | |
| Olton | 11,903 | 17.4 | 15.8 | |
| Blythe | 5,740 | 25.7 | 19.6 | |
| Shirley West | 13,044 | 27.4 | 18.5 | |
| Lyndon | 13,871 | 29 | 17.1 | |
| Elmdon | 12,075 | 29.6 | 18.1 | |
| Shirley South | 12,243 | 30.5 | 23.6 | |
| St Alphege | 13,260 | 41.8 | 24.1 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Supermarkets | 3,209 | 65% shoplifting & theft |
| Shopping areas | 2,664 | 68% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 1,760 | 37% shoplifting & theft |
| Petrol stations | 1,042 | 56% shoplifting & theft |
| Nightclubs | 899 | 36% shoplifting & theft |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 180 | 45% violent |
| Hospitals | 76 | 43% violent |
| Parks and open spaces | 30 | 63% violent |
| Police stations | 28 | 43% violent |
| College and university buildings | 20 | 75% violent |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so St Alphege records 1.7× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Solihull. 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 Solihull. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Solihull’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 68% of Solihull’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 17% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (69% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 5% 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. 5,393 crimes.
Five people died in collisions on Solihull’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 556 collisions with injuries inside Solihull in five years, in which five people died (2 were pedestrians and 1 was a cyclist). 119 people were killed or seriously injured: 42 on foot and 21 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 Solihull’s size would see about 6 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Solihull’s own rate (0.9) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Solihull had 22.1 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, below the median for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more (30.3). 35% 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 Solihull’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Solihull
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solihull | 107,754 | 28.4 | 19.2 | C− |
| Cheswick Green | 2,743 | 14 | 11.2 | B+ |
| Dickens Heath | 4,797 | 19.6 | 12.1 | B− |
| Knowle and Dorridge | 19,323 | 15.1 | 12 | B |
| Tidbury Green | 1,552 | 30.1 | 11 | C |
| Hollywood | 6,944 | 17.3 | 12.6 | B |
| Wythall | 2,077 | 11.3 | 15.1 | B+ |
| Hampton in Arden | 1,867 | 16.8 | 18.3 | C+ |
Solihull records more graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table. Cheswick Green, 2.9 miles away, records 14 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Solihull’s 28.4.
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
- Big public sites inside the boundary. police.uk counted 76 at or near a hospital over three years. They count in Solihull’s rate, as they would for any town that has them.
- 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 Solihull 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 Solihull
Is Solihull safe?
Police recorded 28.4 violent and sexual offences and 19.2 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Solihull’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 24% of UK towns. Among 66 UK towns of 75,000 to 145,000 people, Solihull is 10th from the least crime. 21% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
What are the safest areas of Solihull?
By council ward, Shirley East, Silhill and Olton record the least violent and household crime per resident: 18.6, 19.3 and 17.4 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 41.8 in St Alphege.
Is crime going up in Solihull?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 11%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 8%, shoplifting and theft rose 9% and anti-social behaviour fell 29%. Across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more, violent crime held steady.
Is Solihull city centre safe at night?
police.uk placed 899 crimes and reports at or near nightclubs in three years, 35% of them violent, and St Alphege ward records 41.8 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 of its residents a year. Over the last two years, violent crime peaked in July and was lowest in November.
What is the most common crime in Solihull?
Violence & sexual offences: 2,837 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (2,488) and vehicle crime (841), with 448 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Solihull compare with Birmingham?
Birmingham records 62.8 violent and sexual offences and 28.5 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Solihull’s 28.4 and 19.2, 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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