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TOWNS AND CITIES WERE RANKED BASED ON LATEST CRIME DATA 05:30, 31 May 2025 A Midlands city has been named as the region's crime capital following analysis of latest police data. Towns
and cities were ranked based on their population, to give each area a crime rate based on the number of offences for each person who lives there. The aim was to provide a more accurate
picture of areas which suffer with crime as cities with huge populations - like Birmingham - will always top offending tables. READ MORE: LLOYDS SENDS CUSTOMERS 'CHECK BANK
STATEMENTS' WARNING GET OUR LOCAL NEWSLETTERS LIKE BLACK COUNTRY NEWS, MYSOLIHULL AND MYSUTTONCOLDFIELD STRAIGHT TO YOUR INBOX Stoke-on-Trent topped the Midlands list for number of
crimes per head. Article continues below The Staffordshire city has a higher crime rate than anywhere else in the region, and was ranked 23rd nationally. That placed it just ahead of
Birmingham 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. Stoke has a crime rate of 118 per 1,000 residents, while Birmingham's is slightly lower at 117.8. RESIDENTS CAN CHECK THE CRIME RATE WHERE THEY LIVE USING THE
INTERACTIVE MAP BELOW Elsewhere in the Midlands, Leicester ranked 32nd and Wolverhampton 42nd. Sandwell was in 69th place, followed by Walsall in 70th. Article continues below The crime map
shows the West Midlands as a higher-crime area, with a number of areas in darker shades of red. Unsurprisingly, London's Met Police recorded most crimes last year with 948,000 But
Middlesbrough, in the north east, was the area with the highest crime rate when adjusted for population.