Crime Statistics for Spurtree, Burford, Shropshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Spurtree in September 2024. There were a total of 21 incidents. 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 Spurtree, 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 Crime9
Anti Social Behaviour5
Vehicle Crime3
Criminal Damage Arson1
Possession Of Weapons1
Public Order1
Burglary1
All Crime21

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Tenbury Wells (1.39 miles)25
Burford (1.39 miles)22
Spurtree21
Kyrewood (1.24 miles)20
Boraston (0.62 miles)13
Teme (1.67 miles)12
Boraston Dale (0.88 miles)6
Knighton on Teme (1.96 miles)2
Knowlegate (2.56 miles)1
Newnham Bridge (2.48 miles)1

4.56%
of Tenbury residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Spurtree?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Burford29
Kyrewood14
Spurtree9
Boraston7
Tenbury Wells5
Teme5
Boraston Dale3
Knighton on Teme3
Newnham Bridge1
Knowlegate0

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

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 Spurtree 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 Spurtree compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Spurtree and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Spurtree is ranked #5.

#WardScore
1Leominster East63
2Ludlow East41
3Leominster North & Rural38
4Ludlow North36
5Tenbury24
6Teme Valley16
7Ludlow South15
8Brown Clee15
9Bircher13
10Lindridge8
11Clee7

Which road in Spurtree has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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