Crime Statistics for Lawley, New Works, Shropshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lawley in September 2024. There were a total of 76 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	19
Violent Crime	15
Public Order	11
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Shoplifting	8
Drugs	4
Other Crime	3
Other Theft	2
Burglary	2
Theft From The Person	1
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	76

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 Lawley. 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 Lawley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Town Park (1.24 miles)	506
Town Centre (1.24 miles)	253
Malinslee (1.24 miles)	253
Telford (1.39 miles)	250
Dalwey (0.88 miles)	112
Ketley (1.24 miles)	99
Horsehay (0.62 miles)	86
Lawley	76
Doseley (1.24 miles)	66
Coalmoor (0.88 miles)	30

Where are the most violent places near Lawley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Town Park	280
Telford	78
Town Centre	70
Malinslee	70
Ketley	43
Dalwey	38
Horsehay	25
Doseley	24
Lawley	15
Coalmoor	10

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

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 Lawley 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 Lawley compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Woodside	94
2	Brookside	90
3	Malinslee & Dawley Bank	84
4	Arleston	74
5	Dawley & Aqueduct	66
6	Hadley & Leegomery	65
7	Ketley & Overdale	59
8	Haygate	59
9	St Georges	55
10	Horsehay & Lightmoor	42
11	Ercall	37

Which road in Lawley has the highest level of crime?

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