Annual crime rate in West Midlands county county is 43.2, i.e. 43.2 crimes reported per annum per 1000 workday people. Compared to the national crime rate, West Midlands county's crime rate is at 135%. Violent crime makes up 37.4% of all crimes reported in the county. The total number of "violent crime" is 119k, and this number has increased by 25.8% when compared year-over-year in the period of January 2020 - December 2020.
January 2020 - December 2020
Violent crime rate is 43.2 crimes reported per 1,000 working people per annum. It's the 6. highest crime rate out of 54 England and Wales' counties.
The total number of "violent crime" is 119k, and this number has increased by 25.8% 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.
Crime rate percentage changeMonthly 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.
