Crime Statistics for Shotton, Ewloe Green, Flintshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Shotton in September 2024. There were a total of 271 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 Shotton, 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	85
Anti Social Behaviour	72
Shoplifting	44
Criminal Damage Arson	20
Public Order	20
Other Theft	10
Other Crime	6
Vehicle Crime	4
Drugs	2
Robbery	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Theft From The Person	2
Burglary	2
All Crime	271

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 Shotton. 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 Shotton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Shotton	255
Connah’s Quay (0.88 miles)	155
Garden Village (1.39 miles)	112
Big Mancot (0.88 miles)	98
Aston (0.62 miles)	64
Higher Shotton (0.62 miles)	64
Ewloe (1.39 miles)	33
Little Mancot (1.75 miles)	28
Mancot Royal (1.75 miles)	28
Ewloe Green (1.75 miles)	23

Where are the most violent places near Shotton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Shotton	85
Connah’s Quay	59
Garden Village	48
Big Mancot	32
Aston	22
Higher Shotton	22
Little Mancot	14
Mancot Royal	14
Ewloe	10
Ewloe Green	9

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

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 Shotton 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 Shotton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Queensferry	99
2	Connah's Quay Central	99
3	Shotton Higher	99
4	Shotton West	98
5	Shotton East	97
6	Connah's Quay Golftyn	97
7	Aston	96
8	Mancot	96
9	Ewloe	96
10	Connah's Quay South	95
11	Hawarden	94

Which road in Shotton has the highest level of crime?

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