Crime Statistics for Bings Heath, Astley, Shropshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bings Heath 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 CategoryIncidents
Criminal Damage Arson1
Other Theft1
Violent Crime1
All Crime3

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 Bings Heath. 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 Bings Heath

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Harlescott (2.63 miles)216
Battlefield (2.24 miles)133
Upper Battlefield (1.96 miles)98
Edgebolton (2.63 miles)8
Astley (1.24 miles)3
Bings Heath3
Hadnall (1.75 miles)3
Haston (2.24 miles)3
Ebreywood (0.62 miles)0
Upper Astley (0.62 miles)0

3.54%
of Tern residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Bings Heath?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Harlescott58
Battlefield47
Upper Battlefield32
Edgebolton5
Hadnall2
Haston2
Bings Heath1
Astley0
Ebreywood0
Upper Astley0

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

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 Bings Heath 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 Bings Heath compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bings Heath and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bings Heath is ranked #8.

#WardScore
1Castlefields and Ditherington69
2Sundorne64
3Harlescott59
4Battlefield55
5Bagley48
6Underdale35
7Monkmoor31
8Tern30
9Wrockwardine28
10Edgmond & Ercall Magna17
11Shawbury12

Which road in Bings Heath has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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