Crime Statistics for Market Drayton, Shropshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Market Drayton in September 2024. There were a total of 144 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 Market Drayton, 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 Crime60
Anti Social Behaviour20
Shoplifting18
Public Order12
Other Theft8
Vehicle Crime8
Bicycle Theft5
Theft From The Person4
Other Crime3
Drugs2
Criminal Damage Arson2
Burglary2
All Crime144

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Market Drayton. 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 Market Drayton

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Market Drayton129
Brownhills (0.62 miles)75
Little Drayton (0.88 miles)21
Longslow (1.39 miles)13
Longford (1.96 miles)9
Ternhill (2.77 miles)5
Stoke Heath (3.34 miles)4
Betton (1.75 miles)4
Norton in Hales (3.1 miles)1
Red Bull (1.96 miles)1

5.34%
of Market Drayton West residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Market Drayton?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Market Drayton60
Brownhills33
Little Drayton10
Longford6
Longslow4
Ternhill3
Betton2
Stoke Heath1
Norton in Hales1
Red Bull0

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

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 Market Drayton 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 Market Drayton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Market Drayton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Market Drayton is ranked #3.

#WardScore
1Whitchurch North46
2Market Drayton East44
3Market Drayton West43
4Whitchurch South39
5Wem35
6Prees30
7Loggerheads25
8Audlem22
9Cheswardine19
10Hodnet17
11Maer & Whitmore11

Which road in Market Drayton has the highest level of crime?

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

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