Crime Statistics for Donnington Wood, Oakengates, Shropshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Donnington Wood in October 2024. There were a total of 151 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 Donnington Wood, 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	69
Anti Social Behaviour	22
Shoplifting	14
Public Order	13
Other Theft	6
Vehicle Crime	5
Other Crime	5
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Drugs	5
Possession Of Weapons	3
Burglary	2
Theft From The Person	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	151

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 Donnington Wood. 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 Donnington Wood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Telford (1.96 miles)	283
Hollinswood (1.86 miles)	258
Ketley Bank (1.39 miles)	243
Hortonwood (1.39 miles)	166
Donnington Wood	151
Hadley (1.86 miles)	146
Hadley Castle (1.86 miles)	146
Red Lake (1.75 miles)	131
Oakengates (0.62 miles)	131
Horton (1.76 miles)	21

Where are the most violent places near Donnington Wood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hortonwood	148
Telford	99
Hollinswood	94
Ketley Bank	80
Donnington Wood	69
Oakengates	67
Hadley	51
Hadley Castle	51
Red Lake	46
Horton	8

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

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 Donnington Wood 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 Donnington Wood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Donnington Wood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Donnington Wood have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Malinslee & Dawley Bank.

#	Ward	Score
1	Malinslee & Dawley Bank	84
2	Arleston	74
3	The Nedge	66
4	Hadley & Leegomery	65
5	Donnington	63
6	Oakengates & Ketley Bank	63
7	Ketley & Overdale	59
8	Wrockwardine Wood & Trench	56
9	St Georges	55
10	Muxton	31
11	Priorslee	30

Which road in Donnington Wood has the highest level of crime?

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