Crime Statistics for Shrewsbury, Shropshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Shrewsbury in September 2024. There were a total of 823 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 Shrewsbury, 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	341
Anti Social Behaviour	128
Public Order	84
Shoplifting	68
Other Theft	44
Criminal Damage Arson	40
Drugs	36
Bicycle Theft	36
Vehicle Crime	28
Other Crime	6
Burglary	4
Theft From The Person	4
Robbery	4
All Crime	823

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 Shrewsbury. 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 Shrewsbury

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Shrewsbury	409
Underdale (0.88 miles)	281
Castle Fields (0.88 miles)	281
Gravelhill (0.88 miles)	248
Spring Gdns (0.88 miles)	226
Cherry Orchard	207
Frankwell (0.88 miles)	143
Belle Vue (0.62 miles)	107
Porthill (1.24 miles)	45
Copthorne (1.24 miles)	45

Where are the most violent places near Shrewsbury?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Shrewsbury	341
Spring Gdns	156
Underdale	131
Gravelhill	125
Castle Fields	106
Frankwell	98
Cherry Orchard	86
Belle Vue	35
Copthorne	27
Porthill	26

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

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 Shrewsbury 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 Shrewsbury compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Castlefields and Ditherington	69
2	Quarry and Coton Hill	58
3	Bagley	48
4	Underdale	35
5	Meole	34
6	Monkmoor	31
7	Belle Vue	31
8	Porthill	28
9	Abbey	23
10	Radbrook	22
11	Bayston Hill, Column and Sutton	16

Which road in Shrewsbury has the highest level of crime?

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