Crime and Safety in St Georges and Priorslee
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
St Georges and Priorslee is among the top 10 safest small towns in Shropshire, and is the 38th most dangerous overall out of Shropshire's 215 towns, villages, and cities. The overall crime rate in St Georges and Priorslee in 2026 is 58 crimes per 1,000 people. This compares poorly to Shropshire's overall crime rate, coming in 5% higher than the Shropshire rate of 55 per 1,000 daytime population. For England, Wales, and Northern Ireland as a whole, St Georges and Priorslee is the 413rd safest small town, and the 2,680th most dangerous location out of all towns, cities, and villages.
In July 2022, St Georges and Priorslee had the worst crime rate in Shropshire for shoplifting, with 32 crimes reported and a crime rate of 2.3 per 1,000 daytime population. And in April 2026, St Georges and Priorslee was the worst small town in Shropshire for possession of weapons, with 4 crimes reported and a crime rate of 0.27 per 1,000 daytime population. October 2025 was also a bad month for St Georges and Priorslee residents, when it was Shropshire's most dangerous small town for vehicle crime, recording 5 crimes at a rate of 0.34 per 1,000 daytime population.
The most common crimes in St Georges and Priorslee are violence and sexual offences, with 421 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 28. This is 2.2% higher than 2025's figure of 412 offences and a difference of 0.59 from 2025's crime rate of 28. St Georges and Priorslee's least common crime is theft from the person, with 2 offences recorded in 2026, the same as 2025's figure of 2 crimes.
St Georges and Priorslee 2026 Crime Scorecard
Top 10 Safest
Small Towns, Shropshire
23% lower, regional crime rate
West Midlands
19% lower, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in St Georges and Priorslee is 23% lower than the West Midlands and 19% lower than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
St Georges and Priorslee Crime Rate Over Time
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St Georges and Priorslee Crime Map
Incidents mapped in St Georges and Priorslee 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 St Georges and Priorslee's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around St Georges and Priorslee up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of St Georges and Priorslee's 346 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.
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Crime Risk Scores
St Georges and Priorslee • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within St Georges and Priorslee has a crime risk score of 572. This is based on analysis of 346 nearby areas within St Georges and Priorslee, 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 St Georges and Priorslee's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in St Georges and Priorslee, crime risk scores are typically around 572, while in Shropshire they are average 559.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 690 (556 for Shropshire), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 747 (Shropshire 546).
Trends in Crime Risk
St Georges and Priorslee
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.
No trend could be found in St Georges and Priorslee's crime risk scores over the last 10 years, and the trend may well be static.
The five-year trend may be static; no significant trend was identified in St Georges and Priorslee's crime risk scores during this timeframe.
Over the last year, St Georges and Priorslee's crime risk score has shown an upward trend of approximately 14%, 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
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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
St Georges and Priorslee • 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.
Possession of Weapons offences have a crime rate of 1.34 reports per 1,000 people in St Georges and Priorslee, which is 2.09 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 20 crime reports logged by West Mercia Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, West Mercia Police recorded 46 reports of Drugs in St Georges and Priorslee, resulting in a crime rate of 3.09 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 1.00.
The crime rate for Violence and Sexual Offences is 0.93 times the national average at 28 reports per 1,000. This is from 421 crime reports reported to West Mercia Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
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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.
Drugs offences are trending upwards, though the CrimeRate Index three years ago is too low to measure, and the trend should be reviewed with caution.
Violence and Sexual Offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.99 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Violence and Sexual Offences CrimeRate Index was 0.84 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 18% over this timeframe.
Possession of Weapons offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 3.86 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Possession of Weapons CrimeRate Index was 1.00 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 286% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
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Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Criminal Damage and Arson offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.37 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Criminal Damage and Arson CrimeRate Index was 0.56 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 145% over this timeframe.
Public Order offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.56 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 36% over this timeframe.
Vehicle Crime offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.77 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Vehicle Crime CrimeRate Index was 1.43 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 46% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
St Georges and Priorslee • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Size and colour reflect the CrimeRate Index figures for each type of crime.
St Georges and Priorslee | Shropshire | West Midlands | |||||||
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| Crime Type | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| Anti-Social Behaviour | 146 | 9.81 | 0.76 | 5,722 | 9.99 | 0.71 | 59,827 | 8.79 | 0.62 |
| Bicycle Theft | 6 | 0.42 | 1.02 | 274 | 0.48 | 0.66 | 3,572 | 0.53 | 0.73 |
| Burglary | 34 | 2.28 | 0.73 | 1,274 | 2.22 | 0.71 | 24,188 | 3.54 | 1.13 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 62 | 4.16 | 0.66 | 2,819 | 4.94 | 0.79 | 43,744 | 6.42 | 1.02 |
| Drugs | 46 | 3.09 | 1.00 | 1,123 | 1.97 | 0.64 | 16,314 | 2.38 | 0.77 |
| Other Crime | 24 | 1.61 | 1.15 | 946 | 1.66 | 0.90 | 12,162 | 1.79 | 0.97 |
| Other Theft | 72 | 4.85 | 0.85 | 2,258 | 3.95 | 0.69 | 34,029 | 5.00 | 0.88 |
| Possession of Weapons | 20 | 1.34 | 2.09 | 428 | 0.75 | 0.88 | 9,710 | 1.44 | 1.69 |
| Public Order | 53 | 3.56 | 0.61 | 2,345 | 4.09 | 0.71 | 36,155 | 5.32 | 0.92 |
| Robbery | 9 | 0.61 | 0.90 | 302 | 0.53 | 0.45 | 9,171 | 1.35 | 1.14 |
| Shoplifting | 98 | 6.59 | 0.92 | 3,081 | 5.40 | 0.76 | 51,348 | 7.55 | 1.06 |
| Theft From the Person | 2 | 0.14 | 0.56 | 112 | 0.20 | 0.13 | 3,487 | 0.49 | 0.32 |
| Vehicle Crime | 22 | 1.49 | 0.42 | 950 | 1.67 | 0.39 | 38,628 | 5.68 | 1.32 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 421 | 28.31 | 0.93 | 15,780 | 27.58 | 0.91 | 231,901 | 34.05 | 1.12 |
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Total Crime by Year
St Georges and Priorslee | Shropshire | West Midlands | |||||||
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 869 | 58.45 | 0.85 | 31,692 | 55.44 | 0.77 | 514,409 | 75.54 | 1.05 |
| 2025 | 792 | 54.00 | 0.79 | 31,757 | 55.86 | 0.75 | 516,162 | 76.32 | 1.03 |
| 2024 | 807 | 56.07 | 0.79 | 34,312 | 60.90 | 0.81 | 539,253 | 80.45 | 1.07 |
| 2023 | 907 | 64.55 | 0.86 | 36,711 | 65.97 | 0.83 | 598,904 | 90.62 | 1.15 |
| 2022 | 706 | 52.03 | 0.73 | 34,685 | 63.11 | 0.82 | 564,120 | 86.38 | 1.12 |
| 2021 | 579 | 43.97 | 0.72 | 28,627 | 52.82 | 0.77 | 463,870 | 71.46 | 1.04 |
| 2020 | 565 | 43.66 | 0.67 | 32,796 | 61.19 | 0.83 | 450,576 | 69.72 | 0.94 |
| 2019 | 577 | 45.20 | 0.65 | 32,913 | 61.83 | 0.81 | 460,715 | 71.52 | 0.94 |
| 2018 | 556 | 43.88 | 0.69 | 31,344 | 59.34 | 0.83 | 430,050 | 67.10 | 0.94 |
| 2017 | 482 | 38.20 | 0.67 | 29,700 | 56.84 | 0.89 | 395,755 | 62.08 | 0.97 |
| 2016 | 128 | 10.16 | 0.62 | 8,920 | 17.12 | 0.90 | 117,881 | 18.57 | 0.97 |
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St Georges and Priorslee Compared to Nearby Small Towns
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Small Town | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stirchley and Brookside | 1,276 | 114.84 | 96% more dangerous |
| Great Dawley | 1,416 | 103.78 | 78% more dangerous |
| Madeley | 2,064 | 102.53 | 75% more dangerous |
| Lawley and Overdale | 1,857 | 97.51 | 67% more dangerous |
| Wellington | 1,897 | 74.75 | 28% more dangerous |
| Ludlow | 710 | 66.85 | 14% more dangerous |
| Oswestry | 1,315 | 66.80 | 14% more dangerous |
| Lilleshall | 39 | 27.64 | 53% safer |
| Market Drayton | 801 | 60.38 | 3.3% more dangerous |
| Oakengates | 738 | 64.07 | 10% more dangerous |
| Whitchurch Urban | 605 | 56.80 | 2.8% safer |
| Bridgnorth | 724 | 58.05 | 0.68% safer |
| St Georges and Priorslee | 869 | 58.45 | - |
| Hadley & Leegomery | 917 | 50.09 | 14% safer |
| Shifnal | 495 | 44.67 | 24% safer |
| Newport | 583 | 41.16 | 30% safer |
Comparing St Georges and Priorslee to the UK's Major Cities
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| City Name | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
|---|---|---|
| St Georges and Priorslee | 58.45 | - |
| Cardiff | 79.55 | 36% more dangerous |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 82.69 | 41% more dangerous |
| Sheffield | 84.09 | 44% more dangerous |
| Leicester | 97.87 | 67% more dangerous |
| Bristol | 104.64 | 79% more dangerous |
| Birmingham | 105.05 | 80% more dangerous |
| Liverpool | 106.48 | 82% more dangerous |
| Leeds | 107.10 | 83% more dangerous |
| Nottingham | 107.74 | 84% more dangerous |
| Westminster | 125.00 | 114% more dangerous |
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Offences In and Around St Georges and Priorslee's Parks & Leisure Spaces
Limited to spaces in St Georges and Priorslee that are named and have had crimes recorded within their boundaries in the 12 months to Apr 2026.
| Name | ASB | Drugs | Public Order | Robbery | VSO | All Others |
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| The Green | 1 | - | - | - | 15 | 4 |
| Wrockwardine wood | 10 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 20 | 52 |
| Village Green Gardens | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | 6 | 3 |
Recent Crimes in St Georges and Priorslee
The 20 most recent crime reports in St Georges and Priorslee.
| Date | Crime Type | Location | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | Burglary | On or near Crest Road | |
| April 2026 | Burglary | On or near Eltham Drive | |
| April 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | On or near Ernest Dawes Avenue | |
| April 2026 | Drugs | On or near Teece Drive | |
| April 2026 | Other theft | On or near Eltham Drive | |
| April 2026 | Other theft | On or near Butlers Court | |
| April 2026 | Possession of weapons | On or near Castle Mews | |
| April 2026 | Public order | On or near Ernest Dawes Avenue | |
| April 2026 | Shoplifting | On or near Parking Area | |
| April 2026 | Vehicle crime | On or near Holborn Crescent | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Albert Street | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Snedshill Way | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near St Martins Drive | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Snedshill Way | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near St Martins Drive | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near St Martins Drive | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Castle Mews | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Castle Mews | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Castle Mews | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Station Hill |
Methodology & Data Sources
St Georges and Priorslee Crime Report
Data Sources & Processing
Every month, CrimeRate processes crime reports from data.police.uk, the UK's official provider of open crime report data. Each crime report includes anonymised coordinates, most often "snapped" to the middle of the nearest street, or to the nearest major landmark. The reports also include the month and year the crime was reported, as well as the type of crime.
Data releases on data.police.uk happen once a month, with a two-month delay. This means that, for example, crimes reported in St Georges and Priorslee during June 2026 will typically become available in August 2026. The latest release is for Apr 2026 and was released in Jun 2026. To provide current and historical crime statistics, CrimeRate processed 61,669,232 crime reports for the latest release.
St Georges and Priorslee Data Points
For St Georges and Priorslee, CrimeRate uses the geographic boundaries provided by The Office for National Statistics in the December 2023 release of their Parishes and Non Civil Parished Areas dataset, using the PARNCP23CD column value E04000942.
Due to the 2021 Census being conducted during a UK-wide Coronavirus lockdown, the daytime population figures released so far cannot be relied on for purposes such as comparing crime rates. Instead, CrimeRate uses St Georges and Priorslee's daytime - or "workday" - population of 8,446 from the ONS 2011 Census for calculations throughout the site.
All geographic boundaries use the full resolution - extent of the realm versions where provided to avoid missing crime reports near coastlines and rivers - the banks of the Thames in particular - that would otherwise not be included when using the clipped to the coastline datasets.
Calculating Crime Rates
CrimeRate locates the UK region, county, and town/city/village locality for each crime report, and calculates the crime rate by taking the sum of all crime reports, dividing it by the locality's daytime / "workday" population, and multiplying the result by 1,000 to get the crime rate per 1,000.
Crime Risk Score Calculations
CrimeRate calculates crime counts for local, nearby, and wider areas for every postcode in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The postcodes locations are deduplicated by a process that ensures distinct points are approximately 50 metres apart. This process removes the bias that would otherwise come from counting the same crimes several times in heavily populated areas.
Using a custom algorithm developed in-house, CrimeRate applies a crime severity weighting to each area's crime counts, based on the type of crime reported. This increases or decreases the crime count, or zeroes it out entirely, depending on the crime type. A separate crime severity rate is then calculated, standardised, and scaled to fit the crime risk score range of 1 to 1,000, with 1 being the lowest score, and 1,000 the highest.
Crime risk scores undergo further analysis per town, city, and village plus other areas including police forces and neighbourhoods. CrimeRate uses percentiles to work out the most common range of crime risk scores in each locality. This includes identifying the high and low bounds where approximately 68% of scores fall, and finding the median (50th percentile) for easy reference.
The crime types with a weight of zero are: Anti-Social Behaviour; Bicycle Theft; Other Crime; Other Theft; and Shoplifting. The highest weights to are assigned to Violence & Sexual Offences, and the lowest to Vehicle Crime.
Frequently Asked Questions
Crime in St Georges and Priorslee