Crime Statistics for Hortonwood, Horton, Shropshire, 2024

Crime statistics for Hortonwood, Horton

There were a total of 72 street level crime incidents in Hortonwood in January 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime21
Anti Social Behaviour11
Shoplifting8
Public Order7
Other Theft6
Drugs4
Criminal Damage Arson4
Vehicle Crime4
Other Crime3
Bicycle Theft1
Possession Of Weapons1
Burglary1
Robbery1
All Crime72

Map of street level crime incidents in January 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.

How grim is your Postcode?

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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Ketley Bank (1.96 miles)280
Donnington Wood (1.39 miles)134
Hadley (0.88 miles)134
Hadley Castle (0.88 miles)134
Oakengates (1.75 miles)130
Red Lake (1.86 miles)128
Ketley (1.96 miles)97
Hortonwood72
Horton (0.62 miles)17
Kynnersley (1.96 miles)1

12.68%
of Oakengates & Ketley Bank residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Ketley Bank92
Oakengates56
Donnington Wood48
Hadley46
Hadley Castle46
Red Lake39
Ketley37
Hortonwood21
Horton6
Kynnersley0

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.

#WardScore
1College80
2Arleston74
3Hadley & Leegomery65
4Donnington63
5Oakengates & Ketley Bank63
6Ketley & Overdale59
7Wrockwardine Wood & Trench56
8St Georges55
9Dothill38
10Apley Castle35
11Priorslee30

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.

Last updated: January 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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