West Midlands robbery crime statistics

As of April 2024, annual crime rate in West Midlands region is 1.9 crimes per 1000 workday people. Compared to the national crime rate, West Midlands's rate is at 150%. Robbery crime makes up 1.7% of all crimes reported in the region. The total number of "robbery crime" is 10.5k, and this number has increased by 0.2% when compared year-over-year in the period of March 2023 - February 2024.

West Midlands region	crime statistic	England & Wales
1.9	annual crime rate per 1k workday people	1.3
150%	ratio of national crime rate	100%
1.7%	share of all crimes	1.2%
10.5k	crimes reported	70.6k
0.2%	annual change	5.8%

West Midlands robbery crime rate comparison map

	Crime rate vs. ENG & WLS rate	Crime rate per 1000 workday people	Total number of crimes
Herefordshire	25%	0	56
Shropshire	43%	1	236
Staffordshire	63%	1	855
Warwickshire	56%	1	377
West Midlands	247%	3	8551
Worcestershire	59%	1	436

West Midlands robbery crime rate rank

Robbery crime rate is 1.9 crimes reported per 1,000 working people per annum.

Crime rate ranking : 2. highest crime rate out of 8 regions

West Midlands robbery crime rate compared to other regions

The total number of "robbery crime" is 10.5k, and this number has increased by 0.2% when compared year-over-year in the period of March 2023 - February 2024. In the graph below, region are compared by crime rate and crime rate percentage change. Crime rate percentage change compares the region crime rate between March 2023 - February 2024 to the region crime rate in the previous 12 months. The size of the circle reflects the number of total crimes reported. The bigger the circle, the higher the number of crimes reported in the region.

+0.2% annual change, crime is increasing

10.5k crimes reported