Crime Statistics for Town Park, Dawley, Shropshire, 2024

Is Town Park rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for December 2024. There were a total of 1199 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 Town 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 Crime456
Anti Social Behaviour216
Shoplifting164
Criminal Damage Arson80
Public Order80
Other Theft40
Vehicle Crime36
Bicycle Theft36
Possession Of Weapons32
Drugs24
Other Crime15
Theft From The Person12
Robbery4
Burglary4
All Crime1199

Map of street level crime incidents in December 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Town Park595
Town Centre411
Telford (0.62 miles)405
Malinslee286
Hollinswood (0.88 miles)257
Ketley Bank (1.24 miles)253
Stafford Park (1.24 miles)153
Dalwey (0.88 miles)129
Lawley (1.24 miles)87
Horsehay (1.39 miles)81

6.82%
of Dawley & Aqueduct residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Town Park?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Town Park456
Telford194
Town Centre175
Malinslee133
Hollinswood111
Ketley Bank106
Stafford Park67
Dalwey63
Horsehay36
Lawley33

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Town 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 Town 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 Town Park compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Woodside94
2Brookside90
3Malinslee & Dawley Bank84
4Arleston74
5Madeley & Sutton Hill73
6The Nedge66
7Dawley & Aqueduct66
8Ketley & Overdale59
9St Georges55
10Horsehay & Lightmoor42
11Priorslee30

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

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

Last updated: December 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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