Crime Statistics for Stafford Park, Telford, Shropshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Stafford Park in October 2024. There were a total of 262 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Stafford Park, 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 Crime102
Shoplifting32
Anti Social Behaviour30
Criminal Damage Arson20
Other Theft20
Other Crime12
Bicycle Theft12
Public Order10
Burglary8
Possession Of Weapons8
Drugs6
Vehicle Crime2
All Crime262

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 Stafford Park. 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 Stafford Park

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Telford (1.39 miles)283
Town Centre (1.24 miles)278
Malinslee (1.24 miles)278
Town Park (1.24 miles)278
Hollinswood (0.88 miles)258
Stafford Park249
Ketley Bank (1.75 miles)243
Dalwey (1.96 miles)166
Stirchley (1.39 miles)152
Nedge Hill (0.62 miles)118

18.75%
of The Nedge residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Stafford Park?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Dalwey112
Stirchley105
Stafford Park102
Telford99
Town Centre99
Malinslee99
Town Park99
Hollinswood94
Ketley Bank80
Nedge Hill40

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

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 Stafford Park 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 Stafford Park compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Woodside94
2Brookside90
3Malinslee & Dawley Bank84
4Madeley & Sutton Hill73
5The Nedge66
6Dawley & Aqueduct66
7Oakengates & Ketley Bank63
8Ketley & Overdale59
9St Georges55
10Horsehay & Lightmoor42
11Priorslee30

Which road in Stafford Park has the highest level of crime?

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