Crime in DY5 1TH
How much crime is recorded in DY5 1TH, what kind, and how it compares with the rest of the country.
- Neighbourhood
- Dudley Wood & Saltwells
- Council
- Dudley
- Region
- West Midlands
- Neighbourhood population
- 1,649 (2024)
DY5 1THBrierley Hill
How safe is DY5 1TH
Higher-harm crime — violence, robbery, burglary, vehicle crime and weapons offences — runs at 34.6 offences per 1,000 people a year in the DY5 1TH area, broadly in line with the 31.1 average across England and Wales. That puts it in band 7 of 10 against all neighbourhoods.
Around the middle of neighbourhoods in England and Wales.
What crime is recorded
Offences per 1,000 people a year, at-risk population (residents plus people who work here; households for burglary).
Higher-harm crime over time
The rate has been broadly flat since 2022.
Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, resolved to neighbourhoods. Rates cover September 2025 to August 2026, the latest twelve months published.