Crime Statistics for Gravelhill, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, 2024

There were a total of 162 street level crime incidents in Gravelhill 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 Gravelhill, 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	70
Anti Social Behaviour	23
Public Order	20
Shoplifting	15
Criminal Damage Arson	13
Drugs	6
Other Theft	4
Bicycle Theft	3
Possession Of Weapons	3
Vehicle Crime	2
Burglary	2
Other Crime	1
All Crime	162

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 Gravelhill. 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 Gravelhill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Underdale (1.24 miles)	317
Spring Gdns (1.24 miles)	317
Castle Fields (1.24 miles)	309
Shrewsbury (0.88 miles)	244
Cherry Orchard (0.88 miles)	214
Frankwell	162
Gravelhill	162
Shelton (1.24 miles)	49
Porthill (0.88 miles)	47
Copthorne (0.88 miles)	40

Where are the most violent places near Gravelhill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Castle Fields	131
Underdale	98
Spring Gdns	98
Cherry Orchard	89
Shrewsbury	83
Frankwell	70
Gravelhill	70
Shelton	18
Copthorne	17
Porthill	16

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

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 Gravelhill 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 Gravelhill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Gravelhill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Gravelhill is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Castlefields and Ditherington	69
2	Sundorne	64
3	Quarry and Coton Hill	58
4	Bagley	48
5	Underdale	35
6	Meole	34
7	Belle Vue	31
8	Porthill	28
9	Bowbrook	27
10	Radbrook	22
11	Copthorne	17

Which road in Gravelhill has the highest level of crime?

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