Crime Statistics for Cherry Orchard, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cherry Orchard in August 2024. There were a total of 307 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 Cherry Orchard, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime106
Shoplifting56
Anti Social Behaviour50
Public Order31
Criminal Damage Arson26
Other Theft11
Vehicle Crime5
Bicycle Theft5
Drugs4
Other Crime3
Possession Of Weapons3
Theft From The Person3
Burglary3
Robbery1
All Crime307

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 Cherry Orchard. 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 Cherry Orchard

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Underdale (0.88 miles)770
Castle Fields (0.88 miles)567
Spring Gdns (0.88 miles)406
Gravelhill (0.88 miles)367
Cherry Orchard307
Shrewsbury307
Frankwell (0.88 miles)216
Porthill (1.24 miles)134
Belle Vue (0.62 miles)107
Copthorne (1.24 miles)76

7.45%
of Belle Vue (Shropshire) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Cherry Orchard?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Underdale258
Castle Fields231
Spring Gdns141
Gravelhill135
Cherry Orchard106
Shrewsbury106
Frankwell80
Porthill56
Belle Vue35
Copthorne30

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

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 Cherry Orchard 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 Cherry Orchard compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cherry Orchard and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Cherry Orchard is ranked #7.

#WardScore
1Castlefields and Ditherington69
2Quarry and Coton Hill58
3Bagley48
4Underdale35
5Meole34
6Monkmoor31
7Belle Vue31
8Porthill28
9Abbey23
10Radbrook22
11Bayston Hill, Column and Sutton16

Which road in Cherry Orchard has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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