Crime Statistics for Hadley Castle, Wellington, Shropshire, 2024

There were a total of 146 street level crime incidents in Hadley Castle 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 Hadley Castle, 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	55
Anti Social Behaviour	18
Criminal Damage Arson	18
Shoplifting	15
Other Theft	10
Vehicle Crime	9
Public Order	8
Drugs	5
Possession Of Weapons	4
Other Crime	2
Theft From The Person	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	146

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 Hadley Castle. 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 Hadley Castle

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ketley Bank (1.75 miles)	254
Donnington Wood (1.86 miles)	169
Dothill (1.86 miles)	163
Hadley	146
Hadley Castle	146
Red Lake (1.39 miles)	129
Ketley (1.24 miles)	113
Hortonwood (0.88 miles)	84
Arleston (1.39 miles)	73
Horton (1.39 miles)	23

Where are the most violent places near Hadley Castle?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Hadley Castle 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
Dothill	52
Red Lake	51
Ketley	47
Hortonwood	33
Arleston	30
Horton	8

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

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 Hadley Castle 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 Hadley Castle compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hadley Castle and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Hadley Castle is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	College	80
2	Arleston	74
3	Hadley & Leegomery	65
4	Oakengates & Ketley Bank	63
5	Ketley & Overdale	59
6	Haygate	59
7	Wrockwardine Wood & Trench	56
8	Dothill	38
9	Ercall	37
10	Apley Castle	35
11	Park	34

Which road in Hadley Castle has the highest level of crime?

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