Crime Statistics for Shareshill, Staffordshire, 2024

There were a total of 23 street level crime incidents in Shareshill in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Shareshill, 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	14
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Vehicle Crime	3
Other Theft	2
All Crime	23

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 Shareshill. 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 Shareshill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Brinsford (1.96 miles)	29
Cross Green (1.96 miles)	29
Cheslyn Hay (1.96 miles)	25
Featherstone (0.62 miles)	24
Shareshill	23
Laney Green (1.24 miles)	11
Little Saredon (0.62 miles)	10
Warstone (1.96 miles)	7
Calf Heath (1.39 miles)	3
Great Saredon (1.39 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Shareshill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Featherstone	14
Shareshill	14
Cheslyn Hay	11
Brinsford	9
Cross Green	9
Laney Green	5
Little Saredon	5
Warstone	1
Calf Heath	0
Great Saredon	0

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

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 Shareshill 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 Shareshill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Shareshill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Shareshill is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Essington	65
2	Willenhall North	58
3	Huntington and Hatherton	49
4	Featherstone and Shareshill	46
5	Wednesfield North	43
6	Great Wyrley Town	37
7	Bushbury North	36
8	Cheslyn Hay North and Saredon	33
9	Oxley	30
10	Brewood and Coven	23
11	Cheslyn Hay South	19

Which road in Shareshill has the highest level of crime?

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