Crime Statistics for Shelwick, Holmer & Shelwick, Herefordshire, 2025

Is Shelwick rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 13 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	4
Violent Crime	4
Other Theft	2
Burglary	1
Public Order	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	13

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Shelwick. 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 Shelwick

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hereford (1.96 miles)	281
Aylestone Hill (1.86 miles)	223
Holmer (1.39 miles)	63
Tupsley (1.96 miles)	37
Shelwick Green	23
Shelwick	13
Moreton-on-Lugg (1.75 miles)	6
Burmarsh (1.96 miles)	2
Franklands Gate (1.96 miles)	2
Eau Withington (1.39 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Shelwick?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hereford	93
Aylestone Hill	72
Holmer	19
Tupsley	12
Moreton-on-Lugg	9
Shelwick Green	5
Shelwick	4
Burmarsh	1
Franklands Gate	1
Eau Withington	1

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

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 Shelwick 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 Shelwick compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Shelwick and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Shelwick is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Greyfriars	46
2	Widemarsh	42
3	College	30
4	Aylestone Hill	25
5	Holmer	21
6	Kings Acre	21
7	Eign Hill	19
8	Bobblestock	14
9	Hagley	10
10	Queenswood	8
11	Sutton Walls	4

Which road in Shelwick has the highest level of crime?

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