Crime Statistics for Longden Common, Pulverbatch, Shropshire, 2025

Is Longden Common rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for February 2025. There were a total of 3 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Longden Common, 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	2
Other Theft	1
All Crime	3

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Longden Common. 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 Longden Common

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pontesford (1.75 miles)	6
Great Lyth (2.24 miles)	4
Annscroft (2.24 miles)	4
Longden Common	3
Arscott (1.86 miles)	1
Longden (1.39 miles)	1
Radlith (1.39 miles)	1
Exfords Green (1.39 miles)	0
Lower Common (1.39 miles)	0
Chatford (2.56 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Longden Common?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Pontesford	2
Longden Common	2
Great Lyth	1
Annscroft	1
Radlith	1
Arscott	0
Longden	0
Exfords Green	0
Lower Common	0
Chatford	0

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

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 Longden Common 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 Longden Common compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Meole	34
2	Belle Vue	31
3	Longden	29
4	Porthill	28
5	Church Stretton and Craven Arms	28
6	Bowbrook	27
7	Radbrook	22
8	Copthorne	17
9	Rea Valley	14
10	Severn Valley	13
11	Burnell	4

Which road in Longden Common has the highest level of crime?

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