Shropshire Crime Statistics
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The overall crime rate in Shropshire as of April 2026 is 55 crimes per 1,000 people, and the most common crimes are violence and sexual offences, with reports coming from roughly every 28 out of 1,000 daytime population.
Comparing Shropshire's larger towns and cities, and using Crime Risk Scores - which are calculated by taking severity of each crime type into account - Madeley is the most dangerous. The next most dangerous is Great Dawley, and Stirchley and Brookside comes in as third most dangerous. There are safer parts of Shropshire, identified using the same Crime Risk measurement, starting with Lilleshall which ranks as the safest area in Shropshire, followed up by Newport in second place, and Bridgnorth in third place.
Shropshire Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Shropshire represent the time frame between January 2016 and April 2026. Each point on the map represents an area where crimes have been recorded locally.
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Introduction to Shropshire's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Shropshire up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Shropshire's 28,063 postcodes using three area sizes for comparison:
- Within a Five-Minute Walk
- Within a Ten-Minute Walk
- Within a Fifteen-Minute Walk
Individual crime risk scores and index figures are for the 12-month period ending April 2026 unless otherwise stated.
Crime Risk Scores
Shropshire • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Shropshire has a crime risk score of 559. This is based on analysis of 28,063 nearby areas within Shropshire, with "most" referring to roughly two thirds of the nearby locations.
Crime risk scores are on a scale of 1 to 1,000 and consider the severity of the crimes involved, as determined by sentencing guidelines. A score of 1 represents the lowest risk, and 1,000 the highest risk. This approach ensures that - unlike overall crime rate figures - bicycle theft is not given the same importance in Shropshire's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Shropshire, crime risk scores are typically around 559, while in West Midlands they are average 565.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 556 (562 for West Midlands), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 546 (West Midlands 554).
Trends in Crime Risk
Shropshire
Calculated via Seasonal and Trend decomposition using Loess, the Seasonality Adjusted line represents the original data with seasonality subtracted, and the Trend line has been plotted unadjusted. Overall trend direction has been identified using the Mann-Kendall trend test, and rate calculated from the slope of the best-fit line identified from linear regression.
The 10-year trend indicates a decrease of 11% in Shropshire's crime risk score. This is potentially a strong signal of how the crime risk is evolving. Cross-referencing with major cultural events and Covid's impact during this time is advised.
The five-year trend may be static; no significant trend was identified in Shropshire's crime risk scores during this timeframe.
Over the last year, Shropshire's crime risk score has shown an upward trend of approximately 1.6%, indicating that the risk profile is going up. This is an extremely short time period for crime trend analysis, and caution should be exercised when interpreting this figure.
Crime Rates and Indexes
Shropshire
The CrimeRate Index shows how crime rates compare against the national average.
1.0 equals the average
2.0 is double
3.0 triple
0.5 is half and
0.25 a quarter.
Highest Crime Rates
Shropshire • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Excluding other crime and other theft because their geographic location is often not relevant, anti-social behaviour as its definition is too wide, and bicycle theft for its specificity.
Violence and Sexual Offences have a crime rate of 28 reports per 1,000 people in Shropshire, which is 0.91 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 15,780 crime reports logged by West Mercia Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, West Mercia Police recorded 428 reports of Possession of Weapons in Shropshire, resulting in a crime rate of 0.75 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 0.88.
The crime rate for Criminal Damage and Arson is 0.79 times the national average at 4.94 reports per 1,000. This is from 2,819 crime reports reported to West Mercia Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Shropshire
Excluding other crime and other theft, anti-social behaviour, and bicycle theft, and calculated with the same STL method described in Trends in Crime Risk, using CrimeRate Index figures to identify crime types that are trending above or below the national average, and the analysis timeframe limited to the last three years.
Violence and Sexual Offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.92 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Violence and Sexual Offences CrimeRate Index was 0.95 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 3.2% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Shropshire
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Shoplifting offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.62 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Shoplifting CrimeRate Index was 1.18 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 47% over this timeframe.
Public Order offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.60 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Public Order CrimeRate Index was 0.88 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 32% over this timeframe.
Burglary offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.13 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Burglary CrimeRate Index was 0.77 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 47% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Shropshire • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Size and colour reflect the CrimeRate Index figures for each type of crime.
Shropshire | West Midlands | West Mercia Police | |||||||
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| Crime Type | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| Anti-Social Behaviour | 5,722 | 9.99 | 0.71 | 59,827 | 8.79 | 0.62 | 15,083 | 10.28 | 0.73 |
| Bicycle Theft | 274 | 0.48 | 0.66 | 3,572 | 0.53 | 0.73 | 722 | 0.47 | 0.64 |
| Burglary | 1,274 | 2.22 | 0.71 | 24,188 | 3.54 | 1.13 | 4,108 | 2.79 | 0.89 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 2,819 | 4.94 | 0.79 | 43,744 | 6.42 | 1.02 | 7,698 | 5.24 | 0.83 |
| Drugs | 1,123 | 1.97 | 0.64 | 16,314 | 2.38 | 0.77 | 2,545 | 1.74 | 0.56 |
| Other Crime | 946 | 1.66 | 0.90 | 12,162 | 1.79 | 0.97 | 2,352 | 1.61 | 0.87 |
| Other Theft | 2,258 | 3.95 | 0.69 | 34,029 | 5.00 | 0.88 | 6,230 | 4.26 | 0.75 |
| Possession of Weapons | 428 | 0.75 | 0.88 | 9,710 | 1.44 | 1.69 | 1,116 | 0.77 | 0.91 |
| Public Order | 2,345 | 4.09 | 0.71 | 36,155 | 5.32 | 0.92 | 6,345 | 4.33 | 0.75 |
| Robbery | 302 | 0.53 | 0.45 | 9,171 | 1.35 | 1.14 | 937 | 0.64 | 0.54 |
| Shoplifting | 3,081 | 5.40 | 0.76 | 51,348 | 7.55 | 1.06 | 8,825 | 6.04 | 0.85 |
| Theft From the Person | 112 | 0.20 | 0.13 | 3,487 | 0.49 | 0.32 | 316 | 0.20 | 0.13 |
| Vehicle Crime | 950 | 1.67 | 0.39 | 38,628 | 5.68 | 1.32 | 3,305 | 2.27 | 0.53 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 15,780 | 27.58 | 0.91 | 231,901 | 34.05 | 1.12 | 39,383 | 26.88 | 0.88 |
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Total Crime by Year
Shropshire | West Midlands | West Mercia Police | |||||||
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 31,692 | 55.44 | 0.77 | 514,409 | 75.54 | 1.05 | 83,882 | 57.24 | 0.80 |
| 2025 | 31,757 | 55.86 | 0.75 | 516,162 | 76.32 | 1.03 | 83,092 | 57.11 | 0.77 |
| 2024 | 34,312 | 60.90 | 0.81 | 539,253 | 80.45 | 1.07 | 88,122 | 61.16 | 0.81 |
| 2023 | 36,711 | 65.97 | 0.83 | 598,904 | 90.62 | 1.15 | 96,375 | 67.45 | 0.85 |
| 2022 | 34,685 | 63.11 | 0.82 | 564,120 | 86.38 | 1.12 | 90,936 | 64.40 | 0.84 |
| 2021 | 28,627 | 52.82 | 0.77 | 463,870 | 71.46 | 1.04 | 75,630 | 54.11 | 0.79 |
| 2020 | 32,796 | 61.19 | 0.83 | 450,576 | 69.72 | 0.94 | 85,686 | 61.79 | 0.83 |
| 2019 | 32,913 | 61.83 | 0.81 | 460,715 | 71.52 | 0.94 | 86,846 | 62.83 | 0.82 |
| 2018 | 31,344 | 59.34 | 0.83 | 430,050 | 67.10 | 0.94 | 83,031 | 60.47 | 0.85 |
| 2017 | 29,700 | 56.84 | 0.89 | 395,755 | 62.08 | 0.97 | 80,611 | 59.09 | 0.92 |
| 2016 | 8,920 | 17.12 | 0.90 | 117,881 | 18.57 | 0.97 | 23,646 | 17.39 | 0.91 |
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The Shropshire Streets With The Highest Crime Counts
Each police crime report that CrimeRate receives has a street name automatically assigned to it by the police data team, and this table uses the coordinates to count crimes, rather than the street name alone. That way, if Shropshire has multiple identical street names - which is not unusual - they will be treated separately by CrimeRate's systems.
| Street | Crime Count | ||||||||
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| Grange Close Telford | 71 | ||||||||
| Grange Close Stirchley and Brookside | 71 | ||||||||
| Telford Bus Station Lawley and Overdale | 66 | ||||||||
| Petrol Station Oswestry | 44 | ||||||||
| Nightclub Wellington | 43 | ||||||||
| Wingfield Gardens Shrewsbury | 39 | ||||||||
| Willowfield Madeley | 35 | ||||||||
| Conference/Exhibition Centre Great Dawley | 28 | ||||||||
| Pitchcroft Lane Chetwynd Aston and Woodcote | 24 | ||||||||
| Dutton Close Stoke upon Tern | 24 | ||||||||
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Town and City Comparison
| Town / City | Crime Count | Crime Rate | CrimeRate Index | ||||||
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| Stirchley and Brookside | 1,276 | 114.84 | 1.70 | ||||||
| Great Dawley | 1,416 | 103.78 | 1.48 | ||||||
| Madeley | 2,064 | 102.53 | 1.47 | ||||||
| Lawley and Overdale | 1,857 | 97.51 | 1.41 | ||||||
| Wellington | 1,897 | 74.75 | 1.07 | ||||||
| Telford | 11,302 | 72.55 | 1.01 | ||||||
| Ludlow | 710 | 66.85 | 1.02 | ||||||
| Oswestry | 1,315 | 66.80 | 0.99 | ||||||
| Oakengates | 738 | 64.07 | 0.94 | ||||||
| Shrewsbury | 5,628 | 62.64 | 0.87 | ||||||
| Market Drayton | 801 | 60.38 | 0.94 | ||||||
| St Georges and Priorslee | 869 | 58.45 | 0.85 | ||||||
| Bridgnorth | 724 | 58.05 | 0.85 | ||||||
| Whitchurch Urban | 605 | 56.80 | 0.88 | ||||||
| Hadley & Leegomery | 917 | 50.09 | 0.74 | ||||||
| Shifnal | 495 | 44.67 | 0.71 | ||||||
| Newport | 583 | 41.16 | 0.66 | ||||||
| Lilleshall | 39 | 27.64 | 0.95 | ||||||
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