Crime Statistics for Hortonwood, Horton, Shropshire, 2024

There were a total of 84 street level crime incidents in Hortonwood in February 2024. 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 Hortonwood, 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	33
Anti Social Behaviour	13
Other Theft	10
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Public Order	6
Shoplifting	4
Vehicle Crime	3
Burglary	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	84

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ketley Bank (1.96 miles)	254
Donnington Wood (1.39 miles)	169
Hadley (0.88 miles)	146
Hadley Castle (0.88 miles)	146
Oakengates (1.75 miles)	130
Red Lake (1.86 miles)	129
Ketley (1.96 miles)	113
Hortonwood	84
Horton (0.62 miles)	23
Kynnersley (1.96 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Hortonwood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ketley Bank	97
Donnington Wood	78
Hadley	55
Hadley Castle	55
Oakengates	54
Red Lake	51
Ketley	47
Hortonwood	33
Horton	8
Kynnersley	0

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

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 Hortonwood 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 Hortonwood compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	College	80
2	Arleston	74
3	Hadley & Leegomery	65
4	Donnington	63
5	Oakengates & Ketley Bank	63
6	Ketley & Overdale	59
7	Wrockwardine Wood & Trench	56
8	St Georges	55
9	Dothill	38
10	Apley Castle	35
11	Priorslee	30

Which road in Hortonwood has the highest level of crime?

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