{"id":314475,"date":"2025-08-03T12:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T12:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314475\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T12:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T12:18:14","slug":"new-map-reveals-most-dangerous-places-to-live-see-where-birmingham-ranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314475\/","title":{"rendered":"New map reveals most dangerous places to live &#8211; see where Birmingham ranks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One in nine people experience crime here in the city, according to new stats from the Reach data unit<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_dangerJPG.jpg\" alt=\"Most dangerous places revealed in new map\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Most dangerous places revealed in new map<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Birmingham has been ranked as one of the most dangerous areas to live in the UK, according to a new crime map.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Towns and cities in England and Wales have been rated based on crime rates, revealing the parts of the Midlands where you are statistically most likely to become a victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Areas were listed according to their crime rates &#8211; the number of offences that happen per 100,000 residents living there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Read more:<\/strong> <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/mum-left-bedsheet-loo-door-32112573\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Mum left with bedsheet for loo door as council workers rip bathroom out and vanish<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Here in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a>, a city ranked 25th on the national list, one in nine people experience crime, the new Reach data unit stats show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It has a crime rate of 117.3 per 100,000 people for the year ending March 2025, though the rate was down three per cent on the previous year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/solihull\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Solihull<\/a> came 135th in the rankings, with one in every 13 people suffering from crime. The crime rate here is also down by four per cent. <strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">See where your area ranks in the new interactive map below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">In the wider Midlands, Leicester has a higher offending rate and is placed 24th on the list, while Stoke-on-Trent is not far behind in 31st.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Wolverhampton is lower down the list in 50th place (104.4 per 100,000 people), while <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/sandwell\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Sandwell<\/a> and <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/walsall\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Walsall<\/a> have identical crime rates (98), putting them in 73rd place nationally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Avon and Somerset, and Devon and Cornwall Police saw the biggest drop in non-fraud crime, by 12 per cent in both police force areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Gloucestershire Constabulary saw the biggest increase in non-fraud crime, by 12 per cent, with around 6,500 more offences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Of community safety partnership areas, which are broadly similar to council areas, Derbyshire Dales saw the biggest increase in crime, by 20 per cent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Middlesbrough remains the most dangerous place to live in England and Wales. Last year there were more than 23,000 crimes in the North East city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">While that was a 5 per cent fall from the previous year, it still added up to a crime rate of 158 offences for every 1,000 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One in nine people experience crime here in the city, according to new stats from the Reach data&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-314475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114964798137318843","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}