Crime Statistics for Edstaston, Wem Rural, Shropshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Edstaston in August 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 Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Criminal Damage Arson1
Violent Crime1
Other Theft1
All Crime3

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 Edstaston. 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 Edstaston

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Creamore Bank (0.62 miles)108
Barkers Green (1.96 miles)34
Ryebank3
Edstaston3
Poolhead (1.39 miles)2
Abbey Green (1.39 miles)0
Ladywell (2.24 miles)0
Paddolgreen (0.88 miles)0
Lowe (1.39 miles)0
Waterloo (1.75 miles)0

4.36%
of Wem residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Edstaston?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Creamore Bank52
Barkers Green17
Poolhead2
Ryebank1
Edstaston1
Abbey Green0
Ladywell0
Paddolgreen0
Lowe0
Waterloo0

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

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 Edstaston 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 Edstaston compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Harlescott59
2Battlefield55
3Whitchurch North46
4Whitchurch South39
5Wem35
6Prees30
7Tern30
8Edgmond & Ercall Magna17
9Hodnet17
10Ellesmere Urban16
11Shawbury12

Which road in Edstaston has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Edstaston 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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