Crime Statistics for Town Park, Dawley, Shropshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Town Park in September 2024. There were a total of 1009 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Town Park, 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	280
Shoplifting	188
Anti Social Behaviour	152
Public Order	112
Criminal Damage Arson	92
Other Theft	52
Drugs	36
Other Crime	25
Vehicle Crime	20
Possession Of Weapons	16
Burglary	12
Bicycle Theft	12
Robbery	8
Theft From The Person	4
All Crime	1009

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 Town Park. 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 Town Park

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Town Park	506
Ketley Bank (1.24 miles)	312
Hollinswood (0.88 miles)	259
Town Centre	253
Malinslee	253
Telford (0.62 miles)	250
Stafford Park (1.24 miles)	134
Dalwey (0.88 miles)	112
Horsehay (1.39 miles)	86
Lawley (1.24 miles)	76

Where are the most violent places near Town Park?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Town Park	280
Ketley Bank	101
Hollinswood	82
Telford	78
Town Centre	70
Malinslee	70
Stafford Park	48
Dalwey	38
Horsehay	25
Lawley	15

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

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 Town Park 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 Town Park compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Woodside	94
2	Brookside	90
3	Malinslee & Dawley Bank	84
4	Arleston	74
5	Madeley & Sutton Hill	73
6	The Nedge	66
7	Dawley & Aqueduct	66
8	Ketley & Overdale	59
9	St Georges	55
10	Horsehay & Lightmoor	42
11	Priorslee	30

Which road in Town Park has the highest level of crime?

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