Annual crime rate in West Midlands county county is 7.8, i.e. 7.8 crimes reported per annum per 1000 workday people. Compared to the national crime rate, West Midlands county's crime rate is at 96%. Criminal damage and arson crime makes up 6.8% of all crimes reported in the county. The total number of "criminal damage and arson crime" is 21.5k, and this number has decreased by 12% when compared year-over-year in the period of January 2020 - December 2020.
January 2020 - December 2020
Criminal damage and arson crime rate is 7.8 crimes reported per 1,000 working people per annum. It's the 22. lowest crime rate out of 54 England and Wales' counties.
The total number of "criminal damage and arson crime" is 21.5k, and this number has decreased by 12% when compared year-over-year in the period of January 2020 - December 2020. In the graph below, county are compared by crime rate and crime rate percentage change. Crime rate percentage change compares the county crime rate between January 2020 - December 2020 to the county 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 county.
Monthly crime volumes till December 2020.
Annual crime rate per 1000 workday people
Total number of crimes reported in a given calendar month (1 = January … 12 = December) from 2017 till 2020.