Every part of the Midlands ranked on new crime list
The Midlands' crime hotspots have been ranked based on new crime data from police forces.
National data was analysed to provide a crime table for Britain, with areas adjusted for population to provide a crime rate per head.
And that meant Birmingham did not have the highest crime rate in the Midlands.
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That unwanted title went to Stoke-on-Trent, which was ranked 23rd nationally. Birmingham was next on the list in 24th.
There were over 136,400 non-fraud offences recorded in the second city last year.
While that was much higher than Stoke (30,600), Birmingham has a huge population of around 1.1 million.
It gives Birmingham a crime rate of 117.8 per 1,000 people and means around one in eight Brummies were victims of crime.
Elsewhere in the region, Leicester ranked 32nd and Wolverhampton 42nd.
Sandwell was in 69th place, followed by Walsall in 70th.
The crime map shows the West Midlands as a crime hotspot, with a number of areas in darker shades of red.
Nationally, more than 5.3 million non-fraud crimes were recorded by the 43 police forces in England and Wales.
As usual, the Met Police had the largest caseload, with 948,000 crimes reported in London last year.
But Middlesbrough, in the north east, was the area with the highest crime rate.
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The newly published crime figures come as the results of the latest Crime Survey of England and Wales (CSEW) are also published.
This annual poll, based on face-to-face interviews, seeks to measure the amount and impact of crime, including offences which may not have been reported to police.
The latest survey estimates that 9.6 million incidents of 'headline' crime - which includes theft, robbery, criminal damage, fraud, computer misuse, and violence with or without injury - occurred in 2024
That was about 8.4m more incidents than in the previous year, because of rises in fraud and theft.
Fraud, for example, increased by 33%, with an estimated 4.1m people falling victim to scammers, while theft increased by 13% to around 2.9m crimes.
However, the CSEW shows that crime against individuals and households has generally fallen over the last decade, but with some significant exceptions, such as sexual assault.
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