Crime Statistics for Ketley, New Works, Shropshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ketley in September 2024. There were a total of 99 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Ketley, 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	43
Anti Social Behaviour	17
Shoplifting	10
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Public Order	7
Other Theft	5
Other Crime	5
Drugs	2
Burglary	1
Theft From The Person	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	99

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 Ketley. 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 Ketley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ketley Bank (1.24 miles)	312
Town Centre (1.75 miles)	253
Malinslee (1.75 miles)	253
Telford (1.39 miles)	250
Hadley (1.24 miles)	157
Hadley Castle (1.24 miles)	157
Red Lake (0.62 miles)	155
Arleston (0.62 miles)	115
Ketley	99
Lawley (1.24 miles)	76

Where are the most violent places near Ketley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ketley Bank	101
Telford	78
Town Centre	70
Malinslee	70
Red Lake	63
Hadley	62
Hadley Castle	62
Arleston	48
Ketley	43
Lawley	15

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

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 Ketley 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 Ketley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ketley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Ketley is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Malinslee & Dawley Bank	84
2	College	80
3	Arleston	74
4	Dawley & Aqueduct	66
5	Hadley & Leegomery	65
6	Oakengates & Ketley Bank	63
7	Ketley & Overdale	59
8	Haygate	59
9	Horsehay & Lightmoor	42
10	Ercall	37
11	Park	34

Which road in Ketley has the highest level of crime?

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