349, 351, Alcester Road · Photo: Richard Law · CC BY-SA 2.0Hollywood stands out for shoplifting: 10 times the rate of a typical town its size
Annual rates stand at 17.3 violent and sexual offences and 12.6 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage for every thousand residents. More crime per resident is recorded in 59% of the 1,308 UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. The overall Safety Grade is B (#9 of 22 in Worcestershire), which means close to the middle of UK towns, judged on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. Violence recorded locally dropped 19% in a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Hollywood
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 19% less violent crime per resident in Hollywood than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage fell 7% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Less crime than many places its size
Of 481 UK towns of 5,000 to 9,000 people, Hollywood has the 153rd lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Ashford Common, Finningley and Cockermouth, higher than Peasedown St John, Rusthall and Langton Green and Needham Market. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Hollywood’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 624 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Hollywood 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, Hollywood runs highest on shoplifting (18.4 per 1,000 against 1.8), vehicle crime (4.5 per 1,000 against 2) and burglary (3 per 1,000 against 1.9). Public order and violence & sexual offences sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shoplifting | not graded | 128 | 18.4 | 1.8 |
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 102 | 14.7 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 59 | 8.5 | 8.8 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 31 | 4.5 | 2 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 28 | 4 | 4.5 |
| Other theft | not graded | 28 | 4 | 3.2 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 21 | 3 | 1.9 |
| Public order | not graded | 20 | 2.9 | 3.6 |
| Robbery | Violent | 9 | 1.3 | 0.2 |
| Other crime | not graded | 5 | 0.7 | 1.5 |
| Drugs | not graded | 3 | 0.4 | 1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 3 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 2 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0 |
“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 2,500 to 10,000 people.
How Hollywood’s neighbourhoods rank in England
54% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 0% 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.
Hollywood’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 Hollywood has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling twelve-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 -19% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -7% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft -5% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour +9% (towns its size +0%).
Police in Hollywood identify a suspect less often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 77% of Hollywood’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 15% 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 4% of violent and 0% 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. 204 crimes.
153rd of 481: Hollywood among towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Merley Dorset | 5,489 | 8.4 | 2.8 | 3.8 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 43 | Hagley Worcestershire | 7,012 | 13.3 | 8.6 | 5.7 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 150 | Peasedown St John Somerset | 6,668 | 23.8 | 6 | 7.3 | B |
| 151 | Rusthall and Langton Green Kent | 7,783 | 21.8 | 8.1 | 3.4 | B |
| 152 | Needham Market Suffolk | 5,055 | 20.6 | 9.3 | 7.1 | B |
| 153 | Hollywood Worcestershire | 6,944 | 17.3 | 12.6 | 19.4 | B |
| 154 | Borrowash Derbyshire | 7,171 | 21.4 | 8.6 | 4.2 | B |
| 155 | Upton Dorset | 8,401 | 19.4 | 10.6 | 9.1 | B |
| 156 | Histon and Impington Cambridgeshire | 7,781 | 18.8 | 11.3 | 12.3 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 273 | Bewdley Worcestershire | 8,285 | 27 | 11.5 | 6.4 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 399 | Pershore Worcestershire | 8,207 | 35.5 | 18.2 | 26.4 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 481 | City of London London | 7,820 | 252.8 | 111.5 | 710 | 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 Hollywood, and others in Worcestershire.
Lowest recorded crime in Wythall East, Hollywood and Drakes Cross; highest in Drakes Cross
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wythall East | 990 | 6.7 | 6.4 | |
| Hollywood | 3,164 | 10.6 | 7.6 | |
| Drakes Cross | 2,790 | 22.9 | 13.9 |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Drakes Cross records 2.4× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Hollywood.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Hollywood’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026.
Crime in Hollywood 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 12 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 23 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
No one died in a collision on Hollywood’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 18 collisions with injuries inside Hollywood in five years. 5 people were killed or seriously injured: 3 on foot and 0 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Hollywood is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Hollywood’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 6 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Hollywood had 5.
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 Hollywood’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Hollywood
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hollywood | 6,944 | 17.3 | 12.6 | B |
| Wythall | 2,077 | 11.3 | 15.1 | B+ |
| Tidbury Green | 1,552 | 30.1 | 11 | C |
| Dickens Heath | 4,797 | 19.6 | 12.1 | B− |
| Cheswick Green | 2,743 | 14 | 11.2 | B+ |
| Solihull | 107,754 | 28.4 | 19.2 | C− |
| Alvechurch | 3,412 | 17.3 | 11 | B |
| Hockley Heath | 1,899 | 14.6 | 18.4 | B− |
Hollywood records more graded crime per resident than 3 of its 7 neighbours. Wythall, 0.9 miles away, records 11.3 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Hollywood’s 17.3.
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 Hollywood 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 Hollywood
Is Hollywood safe?
Police recorded 17.3 violent and sexual offences and 12.6 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Hollywood’s built-up area). That earns a B for safety: less crime per resident than 56% of UK towns. Among 481 UK towns of 5,000 to 9,000 people, Hollywood is 153rd from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Hollywood?
By council ward, Wythall East, Hollywood and Drakes Cross record the least violent and household crime per resident: 6.7, 10.6 and 22.9 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 22.9 in Drakes Cross.
Is crime going up in Hollywood?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 19%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 7%, shoplifting and theft fell 5% and anti-social behaviour rose 9%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Hollywood?
Shoplifting: 128 in the 12 months to August 2026. Next came violence & sexual offences (102) and vehicle crime (31), with 59 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Hollywood 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 Hollywood’s 17.3 and 12.6, 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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