Crime Statistics for Hollinswood, Telford, Shropshire, 2024

There were a total of 236 street level crime incidents in Hollinswood in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Hollinswood, 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	94
Shoplifting	32
Anti Social Behaviour	27
Public Order	18
Criminal Damage Arson	18
Other Theft	13
Burglary	10
Drugs	10
Robbery	4
Possession Of Weapons	4
Vehicle Crime	3
Theft From The Person	2
Other Crime	1
All Crime	236

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 Hollinswood. 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 Hollinswood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Town Centre (0.88 miles)	272
Malinslee (0.88 miles)	272
Town Park (0.88 miles)	272
Telford (0.62 miles)	271
Ketley Bank (0.88 miles)	254
Hollinswood	236
Oakengates (1.24 miles)	130
Red Lake (1.39 miles)	129
Stafford Park (0.88 miles)	119
Nedge Hill (1.39 miles)	111

Where are the most violent places near Hollinswood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Telford	114
Town Centre	107
Malinslee	107
Town Park	107
Ketley Bank	97
Hollinswood	94
Oakengates	54
Red Lake	51
Nedge Hill	48
Stafford Park	45

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

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 Hollinswood 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 Hollinswood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hollinswood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Hollinswood is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Brookside	90
2	Malinslee & Dawley Bank	84
3	Madeley & Sutton Hill	73
4	The Nedge	66
5	Dawley & Aqueduct	66
6	Hadley & Leegomery	65
7	Oakengates & Ketley Bank	63
8	Ketley & Overdale	59
9	St Georges	55
10	Horsehay & Lightmoor	42
11	Priorslee	30

Which road in Hollinswood has the highest level of crime?

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