Crime Statistics for Upper Astley, Battlefield, Shropshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Upper Astley in September 2024. There were a total of 3 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Other Theft.

Crime Category	Incidents
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Other Theft	1
Violent Crime	1
All Crime	3

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 Upper Astley. 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 Upper Astley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Harlescott (2.24 miles)	254
Battlefield (1.75 miles)	133
Upper Battlefield (1.39 miles)	89
Broadoak (2.56 miles)	17
Hadnall (1.39 miles)	9
Astley (0.62 miles)	3
Bings Heath (0.62 miles)	3
Haston (1.75 miles)	3
Upper Astley	3
Ebreywood (0.88 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Upper Astley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Harlescott	111
Battlefield	47
Upper Battlefield	26
Broadoak	3
Hadnall	3
Haston	2
Bings Heath	1
Upper Astley	1
Astley	0
Ebreywood	0

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

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 Upper Astley 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 Upper Astley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Upper Astley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Upper Astley have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Castlefields and Ditherington.

#	Ward	Score
1	Castlefields and Ditherington	69
2	Sundorne	64
3	Harlescott	59
4	Quarry and Coton Hill	58
5	Battlefield	55
6	Bagley	48
7	Underdale	35
8	Monkmoor	31
9	Tern	30
10	Edgmond & Ercall Magna	17
11	Shawbury	12

Which road in Upper Astley has the highest level of crime?

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