Crime Statistics for Belle Vue, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Belle Vue in October 2024. There were a total of 118 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 Belle Vue, 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	39
Shoplifting	23
Anti Social Behaviour	14
Public Order	13
Other Theft	9
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Drugs	4
Bicycle Theft	2
Theft From The Person	2
Other Crime	2
Vehicle Crime	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	118

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 Belle Vue. 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 Belle Vue

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Spring Gdns (1.39 miles)	463
Frankwell (1.39 miles)	342
Castle Fields (1.39 miles)	291
Cherry Orchard (0.62 miles)	225
Shrewsbury (0.62 miles)	225
Gravelhill (1.39 miles)	180
Belle Vue	118
Porthill (1.39 miles)	40
Copthorne (1.39 miles)	40
Betton Strange (1.39 miles)	34

Where are the most violent places near Belle Vue?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Spring Gdns	204
Frankwell	121
Castle Fields	108
Cherry Orchard	78
Shrewsbury	78
Gravelhill	66
Belle Vue	39
Porthill	23
Copthorne	23
Betton Strange	11

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

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 Belle Vue 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 Belle Vue compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Belle Vue and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Belle Vue is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Castlefields and Ditherington	69
2	Quarry and Coton Hill	58
3	Underdale	35
4	Meole	34
5	Monkmoor	31
6	Belle Vue	31
7	Porthill	28
8	Abbey	23
9	Radbrook	22
10	Bayston Hill, Column and Sutton	16
11	Severn Valley	13

Which road in Belle Vue has the highest level of crime?

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