Crime Statistics for Spring Gdns, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, 2024

There were a total of 309 street level crime incidents in Spring Gdns 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 Spring Gdns, 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	131
Anti Social Behaviour	44
Criminal Damage Arson	31
Public Order	30
Shoplifting	29
Drugs	10
Other Theft	9
Burglary	7
Possession Of Weapons	6
Vehicle Crime	5
Bicycle Theft	4
Other Crime	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	309

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 Spring Gdns. 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 Spring Gdns

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Underdale	309
Spring Gdns	309
Castle Fields	309
Cherry Orchard (0.88 miles)	214
Shrewsbury (0.88 miles)	214
Harlescott (1.39 miles)	199
Frankwell (1.24 miles)	162
Gravelhill (1.24 miles)	162
Monkmoor (0.62 miles)	152
Uffington (1.24 miles)	71

Where are the most violent places near Spring Gdns?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Underdale	131
Spring Gdns	131
Castle Fields	131
Cherry Orchard	89
Shrewsbury	89
Frankwell	70
Gravelhill	70
Harlescott	68
Monkmoor	66
Uffington	30

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

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 Spring Gdns 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 Spring Gdns compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Castlefields and Ditherington	69
2	Sundorne	64
3	Quarry and Coton Hill	58
4	Bagley	48
5	Underdale	35
6	Monkmoor	31
7	Belle Vue	31
8	Tern	30
9	Porthill	28
10	Abbey	23
11	Bayston Hill, Column and Sutton	16

Which road in Spring Gdns has the highest level of crime?

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