Crime Statistics for Castle Fields, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Castle Fields in August 2024. There were a total of 574 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Castle Fields, 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	231
Anti Social Behaviour	90
Shoplifting	69
Public Order	52
Criminal Damage Arson	37
Other Theft	21
Other Crime	19
Possession Of Weapons	18
Vehicle Crime	13
Burglary	6
Robbery	6
Theft From The Person	4
Bicycle Theft	4
Drugs	4
All Crime	574

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Underdale	770
Castle Fields	567
Spring Gdns	406
Gravelhill (1.24 miles)	367
Cherry Orchard (0.88 miles)	307
Shrewsbury (0.88 miles)	307
Monkmoor (0.62 miles)	224
Harlescott (1.39 miles)	216
Frankwell (1.24 miles)	216
Uffington (1.24 miles)	80

Where are the most violent places near Castle Fields?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Underdale	258
Castle Fields	231
Spring Gdns	141
Gravelhill	135
Cherry Orchard	106
Shrewsbury	106
Monkmoor	83
Frankwell	80
Harlescott	58
Uffington	52

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

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 Castle Fields 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 Castle Fields compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Castlefields and Ditherington	69
2	Sundorne	64
3	Quarry and Coton Hill	58
4	Bagley	48
5	Underdale	35
6	Monkmoor	31
7	Belle Vue	31
8	Tern	30
9	Porthill	28
10	Abbey	23
11	Bayston Hill, Column and Sutton	16

Which road in Castle Fields has the highest level of crime?

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