Crime Statistics for Shrewsbury, Shropshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Shrewsbury in October 2024. There were a total of 225 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 Shrewsbury, 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	78
Anti Social Behaviour	37
Shoplifting	33
Public Order	24
Criminal Damage Arson	14
Drugs	13
Bicycle Theft	7
Other Theft	5
Vehicle Crime	4
Burglary	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
Theft From The Person	2
Other Crime	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	225

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 Shrewsbury. 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 Shrewsbury

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Spring Gdns (0.88 miles)	463
Frankwell (0.88 miles)	342
Underdale (0.88 miles)	291
Castle Fields (0.88 miles)	291
Cherry Orchard	225
Shrewsbury	225
Gravelhill (0.88 miles)	180
Belle Vue (0.62 miles)	118
Porthill (1.24 miles)	40
Copthorne (1.24 miles)	40

Where are the most violent places near Shrewsbury?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Spring Gdns	204
Frankwell	121
Underdale	108
Castle Fields	108
Cherry Orchard	78
Shrewsbury	78
Gravelhill	66
Belle Vue	39
Porthill	23
Copthorne	23

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

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 Shrewsbury 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 Shrewsbury compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Castlefields and Ditherington	69
2	Quarry and Coton Hill	58
3	Bagley	48
4	Underdale	35
5	Meole	34
6	Monkmoor	31
7	Belle Vue	31
8	Porthill	28
9	Abbey	23
10	Radbrook	22
11	Bayston Hill, Column and Sutton	16

Which road in Shrewsbury has the highest level of crime?

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