Crime Statistics for Dalwey, Dawley, Shropshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Dalwey in October 2024. There were a total of 198 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 Dalwey, 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	112
Anti Social Behaviour	30
Criminal Damage Arson	14
Vehicle Crime	8
Drugs	6
Other Theft	6
Other Crime	6
Burglary	6
Possession Of Weapons	4
Theft From The Person	2
Robbery	2
Public Order	2
All Crime	198

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 Dalwey. 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 Dalwey

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Town Centre (0.88 miles)	278
Malinslee (0.88 miles)	278
Town Park (0.88 miles)	278
Dalwey	166
Aqueduct (1.24 miles)	134
Little Dawley (0.62 miles)	126
Horsehay (0.62 miles)	117
Lawley (0.88 miles)	89
Doseley (0.88 miles)	67
Coalmoor (1.24 miles)	29

Where are the most violent places near Dalwey?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Dalwey	112
Town Centre	99
Malinslee	99
Town Park	99
Horsehay	65
Little Dawley	63
Aqueduct	56
Lawley	38
Doseley	37
Coalmoor	18

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

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 Dalwey 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 Dalwey compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Woodside	94
2	Brookside	90
3	Malinslee & Dawley Bank	84
4	Arleston	74
5	Madeley & Sutton Hill	73
6	The Nedge	66
7	Dawley & Aqueduct	66
8	Ketley & Overdale	59
9	St Georges	55
10	Ironbridge Gorge	52
11	Horsehay & Lightmoor	42

Which road in Dalwey has the highest level of crime?

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