Crime Statistics for Hope Bowdler, Ragdon, Shropshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hope Bowdler in October 2024. There was only 1 incident. See where that was on the map below.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime1

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 Hope Bowdler. 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 Hope Bowdler

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Church Stretton (1.39 miles)14
Ashbrook (1.75 miles)8
All Stretton (1.96 miles)7
Hope Bowdler1
Ragdon (1.39 miles)1
Little Stretton (1.96 miles)1
Wall Bank (1.86 miles)0
Wall under Heywood (1.86 miles)0
Stoneacton (1.96 miles)0
Rushbury (2.55 miles)0

6.53%
of Church Stretton and Craven Arms residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Hope Bowdler?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Church Stretton12
Ashbrook4
All Stretton3
Ragdon1
Little Stretton1
Hope Bowdler0
Wall Bank0
Wall under Heywood0
Stoneacton0
Rushbury0

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

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 Hope Bowdler 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 Hope Bowdler compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Ludlow East41
2Ludlow North36
3Meole34
4Longden29
5Church Stretton and Craven Arms28
6Ludlow South15
7Rea Valley14
8Severn Valley13
9Bishop's Castle9
10Corvedale9
11Burnell4

Which road in Hope Bowdler has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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