Crime in Telford and Wrekin: statistics, rates and trends

Violence and sexual offences (7,580), anti-social behaviour (2,452) and shoplifting (1,640) made up 67% of all recorded crime. Its crime rate ranks 135th of the 302 districts covered by this site (1 = highest), in the upper half.

The year to August 2026 had the least recorded crime in Telford and Wrekin of any year here (17,406 crimes). Between the years to August 2018 and 2026 it fell 21%, while across England and Wales it fell 4%.

Month by month

No category with at least 20 crimes was notably above the England and Wales rate, and theft from the person (81% below) and vehicle crime (58% below) were well below it. On the year before, robbery rose from 104 to 196, while bicycle theft fell from 109 to 79 and vehicle crime fell from 510 to 413.

What each category covers: crime categories.

14,301 crimes, excluding fraud, were recorded by the police in Telford and Wrekin in the year ending March 2026, according to the Home Office's police recorded crime statistics. That is 73.0 per 1,000 residents, close to the England and Wales rate of 83.2. The total was almost unchanged on the year ending March 2025 (14,421), against a fall of 2% across England and Wales. Among the 272 districts of England and Wales with a figure for that year, Telford and Wrekin had the 135th highest rate (the street-level ranking above is among the 302 districts with street-level pages on this site, over the 12 months to August 2026).

Offences recorded in Telford and Wrekin, the year ending March 2026

The largest category was violence without injury, with 2,483 offences (17% of the total). No category with at least 20 offences had a rate a quarter or more above the England and Wales rate. Rates were lowest relative to the national rate for theft from the person (0.14 times), vehicle offences (0.42 times) and residential burglary (0.57 times).

The largest rises on the year were in robbery of personal property (+44%) and possession of drugs (+20%). The largest falls were in non-residential burglary (−38%) and theft from the person (−27%). Robbery of business property and shoplifting are not compared with the year ending March 2025: from April 2025 the Home Office Counting Rules were clarified so that a theft from a shop in which violence is used or threatened against staff or anyone else is recorded as robbery of business property rather than shoplifting (ONS).

Recorded crime in Telford and Wrekin since the year ending March 2017

The chart shows police recorded crime per 1,000 residents in each year ending March from 2017 to 2026. Telford and Wrekin's rate was above the England and Wales rate in 1 of those 10 years and below it in 9. The series starts in the year ending March 2017 because the share of crimes in the West Mercia Police area not assigned to a district moved from 4.8% in the year ending March 2016 to 0.0% in the year ending March 2017, which changes district totals without any change in crime.

Changes in how forces record crime move these figures as well as changes in crime (methodology).

Districts in the West Mercia Police area, the year ending March 2026

Of the 3 districts in the West Mercia Police area with a figure for the year ending March 2026, Telford and Wrekin had the highest rate. Bromsgrove, Malvern Hills, Redditch, Worcester, Wychavon and Wyre Forest are not in the table because the Home Office publishes each of them jointly with a neighbouring district, as one community safety partnership.

Source: Home Office police recorded crime and outcomes open data tables (released 23 July 2026), gov.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Financial years, excluding fraud; how they differ from the street-level figures: methodology.

3 of the 8 nearest districts have a higher crime rate than Telford and Wrekin; the highest is Walsall district (103.7 per 1,000) and the lowest Shropshire (57.8).

Of the 36 areas within Telford and Wrekin, Overdale & The Rock had the highest crime rate (428.8 per 1,000) and Admaston & Bratton the lowest (18.3), 23 times apart.

The 10 locations below account for 23% of the crime recorded in Telford and Wrekin over the 12 months to August 2026; the most were recorded at “Parking Area” (1,675).

Of the 14,954 crimes in Telford and Wrekin with a recorded outcome, 21% ended with the investigation complete and no suspect identified, against 35% across England and Wales; 5.9% were awaiting a court outcome (England and Wales: 5.2%). The 2,452 anti-social behaviour reports have no outcome and are left out.

Telford and Wrekin has an estimated population of 195,952 (ONS, mid-2024). Compared with England and Wales it has fewer residents with Level 4 qualifications or above (26%, against 34%). On the England IoD 2025, the small areas (LSOAs) that make up Telford and Wrekin average decile 4.9 (1 = most deprived), close to the middle.

Police-recorded crime from data.police.uk (September 2017 to August 2026), ONS population estimates and Census 2021. Definitions and limitations: methodology.