Crime in Solihull showed a mixed picture across the selected recorded crime categories we analysed between 2024 and 2025.
The purpose of this crime snapshot is to increase awareness of local crime trends and provide a simple year-on-year comparison using Police.uk data.
It is not intended to provide a complete picture of all crime in Solihull. Instead, it focuses on four categories that may be particularly relevant to residents, property owners and businesses: burglary, other theft, vehicle crime, and criminal damage and arson.
The figures include all recorded offences within these categories across Solihull. They are not limited to residential or commercial properties.
Crime in Solihull: Key Figures
| Crime category | 2024 | 2025 | Numerical change | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burglary | 955 | 950 | -5 | -0.5% |
| Other theft | 1,414 | 1,160 | -254 | -18.0% |
| Vehicle crime | 2,648 | 2,187 | -461 | -17.4% |
| Criminal damage and arson | 1,365 | 1,547 | +182 | +13.3% |
| Selected categories total | 6,382 | 5,844 | -538 | -8.4% |
Across the four selected crime categories, recorded offences fell from 6,382 in 2024 to 5,844 in 2025.
That represents 538 fewer recorded offences, an overall reduction of 8.4%.
What Does That Look Like Across the Year?
In 2024, the selected categories accounted for:
6,382 recorded offences across the year
Approximately 532 per month
Approximately 17.4 per day
In 2025, this fell to:
5,844 recorded offences across the year
Approximately 487 per month
Approximately 16 per day
These monthly and daily figures are averages across the full year. They do not mean offences occurred evenly from one day or month to another.
What Increased?
The clearest increase was in criminal damage and arson.
There were 1,365 recorded offences in this category during 2024, compared with 1,547 in 2025.
That was an increase of 182 offences, or 13.3%.
Police.uk combines criminal damage and arson within one category in the data used for this snapshot. This means we cannot produce separate totals for vandalism, criminal damage and arson from these figures.
What Decreased?
The largest reductions were recorded in vehicle crime and other theft.
Vehicle crime fell from 2,648 offences in 2024 to 2,187 in 2025.
That represents 461 fewer recorded offences, a reduction of 17.4%.
Other theft fell from 1,414 to 1,160 offences, representing 254 fewer offences, or a reduction of 18.0%.
Burglary remained broadly stable.
There were 955 recorded burglaries in 2024 and 950 in 2025, a difference of only five offences.
The overall picture is therefore mixed rather than showing crime moving consistently in one direction. Three of the four categories either fell or remained broadly stable, while criminal damage and arson increased.
What Could This Mean for Residents and Businesses?
The figures do not show whether individual offences involved private homes, shops, offices, warehouses, construction sites or other types of premises.
They can, however, provide useful local context.
Almost 950 burglaries were still recorded across Solihull in 2025, while criminal damage and arson increased by 13.3%.
For businesses responsible for premises, vehicles or physical assets, trends such as these may be worth considering when reviewing access arrangements, out-of-hours security and the protection of exposed property.
There may also be relevance for some residential properties.
Owners of larger homes, private estates or rural properties may have more than the main building to consider, including entrances, driveways, vehicles, garages, outbuildings and wider grounds.
The statistics do not tell us how many offences affected these types of properties and should not be interpreted as evidence that larger homes or estates are specifically being targeted.
For properties where an additional on-site security presence is being considered, Colosseum K9 also provides private residential security.
About the Crime in Solihull Data
This snapshot is based on Police.uk street-level recorded crime data covering January to December 2024 and January to December 2025.
The same crime categories and geographic approach were used for both years to provide a like-for-like comparison.
Police.uk publishes crime locations in an anonymised form, so individual map points should not be treated as exact incident addresses.
The figures should therefore be viewed as a local crime snapshot rather than a record of offences affecting specific homes, businesses or individual properties.
Official source: Police.uk Open Crime Data
More information about how Police.uk publishes street-level crime information is available in the Police.uk crime data methodology.
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