Crime Statistics for Red Lake, Oakengates, Shropshire, 2025

Is Red Lake rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 102 incidents. 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 Red Lake, 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 Crime34
Shoplifting27
Anti Social Behaviour14
Criminal Damage Arson7
Other Theft6
Vehicle Crime5
Burglary3
Public Order3
Other Crime2
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime102

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Town Park (1.39 miles)595
Town Centre (1.39 miles)411
Telford (0.88 miles)405
Malinslee (1.39 miles)286
Hollinswood (1.39 miles)257
Ketley Bank (0.62 miles)183
Oakengates (1.39 miles)127
Ketley (0.62 miles)124
Red Lake102
Arleston (1.24 miles)50

10.84%
of Ketley & Overdale residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Red Lake?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Town Park456
Telford194
Town Centre175
Ketley Bank155
Malinslee133
Hollinswood111
Ketley61
Oakengates54
Red Lake34
Arleston26

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

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 Red Lake 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 Red Lake compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Red Lake and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Red Lake is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1Malinslee & Dawley Bank84
2Arleston74
3Dawley & Aqueduct66
4Hadley & Leegomery65
5Oakengates & Ketley Bank63
6Ketley & Overdale59
7Haygate59
8Wrockwardine Wood & Trench56
9St Georges55
10Horsehay & Lightmoor42
11Priorslee30

Which road in Red Lake has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2025
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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