Crime Statistics for Stirchley, Madeley, Shropshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Stirchley in August 2024. There were a total of 201 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 Stirchley, 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	82
Anti Social Behaviour	30
Public Order	18
Criminal Damage Arson	17
Shoplifting	15
Other Theft	11
Possession Of Weapons	7
Burglary	6
Drugs	4
Other Crime	4
Vehicle Crime	4
Bicycle Theft	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	201

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 Stirchley. 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 Stirchley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Malinslee (1.39 miles)	485
Little Dawley (1.24 miles)	259
Brookside (0.88 miles)	252
Madeley (1.39 miles)	205
Stirchley	201
Aqueduct (1.39 miles)	189
Tweedale (1.24 miles)	172
Dalwey (1.39 miles)	130
Nedge Hill (0.88 miles)	130
Halesfield (1.39 miles)	109

Where are the most violent places near Stirchley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Malinslee	189
Little Dawley	111
Brookside	111
Madeley	87
Stirchley	82
Aqueduct	76
Tweedale	72
Dalwey	57
Nedge Hill	53
Halesfield	50

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

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 Stirchley 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 Stirchley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Stirchley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Stirchley is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Woodside	94
2	Brookside	90
3	Malinslee & Dawley Bank	84
4	Madeley & Sutton Hill	73
5	The Nedge	66
6	Dawley & Aqueduct	66
7	St Georges	55
8	Ironbridge Gorge	52
9	Horsehay & Lightmoor	42
10	Broseley	33
11	Much Wenlock	28

Which road in Stirchley has the highest level of crime?

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