Crime Statistics for Hortonwood, Horton, Shropshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hortonwood in September 2024. There were a total of 189 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Hortonwood, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	69
Vehicle Crime	30
Anti Social Behaviour	18
Criminal Damage Arson	18
Other Theft	18
Drugs	12
Burglary	8
Possession Of Weapons	6
Shoplifting	6
Other Crime	4
All Crime	189

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Hortonwood. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Hortonwood

We've taken the ten nearest places to Hortonwood and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Hortonwood has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Ketley Bank (1.96 miles)	312
Oakengates (1.75 miles)	243
Donnington Wood (1.39 miles)	177
Hortonwood	177
Hadley (0.88 miles)	157
Hadley Castle (0.88 miles)	157
Red Lake (1.86 miles)	155
Ketley (1.96 miles)	99
Horton (0.62 miles)	18
Kynnersley (1.96 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Hortonwood?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Hortonwood and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Ketley Bank	101
Oakengates	100
Donnington Wood	77
Hortonwood	69
Red Lake	63
Hadley	62
Hadley Castle	62
Ketley	43
Horton	5
Kynnersley	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Hortonwood?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Hortonwood to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Hortonwood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hortonwood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hortonwood is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	College	80
2	Arleston	74
3	Hadley & Leegomery	65
4	Donnington	63
5	Oakengates & Ketley Bank	63
6	Ketley & Overdale	59
7	Wrockwardine Wood & Trench	56
8	St Georges	55
9	Dothill	38
10	Apley Castle	35
11	Priorslee	30

Which road in Hortonwood has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Hortonwood with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.