Crime Statistics for Arleston, Wellington, Shropshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Arleston in October 2024. There were a total of 77 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 Arleston, 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	27
Shoplifting	14
Public Order	9
Anti Social Behaviour	8
Other Theft	6
Drugs	4
Burglary	3
Other Crime	3
Possession Of Weapons	1
Theft From The Person	1
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	77

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ketley Bank (1.86 miles)	243
Dothill (1.75 miles)	159
Hadley (1.39 miles)	146
Hadley Castle (1.39 miles)	146
Red Lake (1.24 miles)	131
Ketley (0.62 miles)	94
Lawley (1.39 miles)	89
Arleston	77
Coalmoor (1.86 miles)	29
Cluddley (1.86 miles)	6

Where are the most violent places near Arleston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ketley Bank	80
Hadley	51
Hadley Castle	51
Dothill	48
Red Lake	46
Lawley	38
Ketley	34
Arleston	27
Coalmoor	18
Cluddley	2

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

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 Arleston 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 Arleston compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	College	80
2	Arleston	74
3	Hadley & Leegomery	65
4	Ketley & Overdale	59
5	Haygate	59
6	Horsehay & Lightmoor	42
7	Dothill	38
8	Ercall	37
9	Apley Castle	35
10	Park	34
11	Wrockwardine	28

Which road in Arleston has the highest level of crime?

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