Photo: Humphrey Bolton · CC BY-SA 2.0Recorded crime in Snailbeach, without a grade
Burglary, vehicle crime and damage ran at 5.7 per 1,000 residents a year. This page shows what police recorded inside Snailbeach’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026; it carries no Safety Grade. The town has fewer than 1,000 residents, and Safety is graded only from 1,000, where a handful of incidents no longer moves the rate a long way.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drugs | not graded | 1 | 3.4 | 0.6 |
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 0 | 0 | 16.6 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 0 | 0 | 3.2 |
| Public order | not graded | 0 | 0 | 2.4 |
| Other theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 2.5 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 0 | 0 | 1.6 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 0 | 0 | 1.5 |
| Other crime | not graded | 0 | 0 | 1.1 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 0 | 0 | 5.3 |
“Violent” is police.uk’s violence and sexual offences (which includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury), robbery and possession of weapons. Anti-social behaviour isn’t a crime category; shoplifting and other theft happen mostly in shops and town centres rather than to residents, so neither counts in the grade.
September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 residents. The tick on each bar is the typical (median) town among UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people.
Crime in the places around Snailbeach
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snailbeach | 295 | 0 | 5.7 | — |
| Minsterley | 1,719 | 27 | 8.7 | C+ |
| Pontesbury | 1,968 | 25.4 | 5.4 | B− |
| Hanwood | 1,257 | 33.5 | 8.8 | C |
| Church Stretton | 3,576 | 18.1 | 7.1 | B+ |
| Bayston Hill | 5,221 | 10.9 | 2.6 | A+ |
| Bishop's Castle | 1,847 | 25.6 | 10.8 | C+ |
| Welshpool | 5,460 | 66.5 | 16.2 | D− |
Snailbeach records less graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table.
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Where crimes happen, not where victims live. police.uk places each crime at a point near where it happened. Town centres with shops, stations, a hospital and nightlife record more crime per resident, and residents of nearby villages who come in to shop or go out are part of that count.
- Bigger towns record more per resident. Across UK towns, recorded crime per resident rises steeply with size, more than in the U.S., so a city’s grade sits low against the whole UK. The “towns its size” figures show where Snailbeach sits among towns like it; they are context and don’t change the grade.
- Points are approximate. police.uk moves each point to the nearest of a set of anonymous map points, so crimes near the edge of the built-up area can fall either side of it.
Questions about safety in Snailbeach
Is Snailbeach safe?
Police recorded 0 violent and sexual offences and 5.7 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Snailbeach’s built-up area).
What is the most common crime in Snailbeach?
Drugs: 1 in the 12 months to August 2026. Next came violence & sexual offences (0) and shoplifting (0), with 0 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Snailbeach compare with Shrewsbury?
Shrewsbury records 37.4 violent and sexual offences and 12.6 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Snailbeach’s 0 and 5.7, over the same three years.
Sources: data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · MHCLG English Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain by LSOA (residents from ONS Census 2021) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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