Crime Statistics for Telford, Telford and Wrekin, 2024

There were a total of 271 street level crime incidents in Telford in February 2024. 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 Telford, 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	114
Shoplifting	41
Anti Social Behaviour	37
Public Order	21
Other Theft	14
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Drugs	9
Burglary	8
Robbery	4
Vehicle Crime	4
Other Crime	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	271

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 Telford. 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 Telford

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Town Centre (0.62 miles)	293
Town Park (0.62 miles)	293
Malinslee (0.62 miles)	272
Telford	271
Ketley Bank (0.62 miles)	254
Hollinswood (0.62 miles)	236
Red Lake (0.88 miles)	129
Stafford Park (1.39 miles)	119
Ketley (1.39 miles)	113
Lawley (1.39 miles)	88

Where are the most violent places near Telford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Town Centre	119
Town Park	119
Telford	114
Malinslee	107
Ketley Bank	97
Hollinswood	94
Red Lake	51
Ketley	47
Stafford Park	45
Lawley	37

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

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 Telford 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 Telford compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Telford and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Telford is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Brookside	90
2	Malinslee & Dawley Bank	84
3	Arleston	74
4	The Nedge	66
5	Dawley & Aqueduct	66
6	Hadley & Leegomery	65
7	Oakengates & Ketley Bank	63
8	Ketley & Overdale	59
9	St Georges	55
10	Horsehay & Lightmoor	42
11	Priorslee	30

Which road in Telford has the highest level of crime?

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