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Crime · Oswestry
Reported crime in Oswestry
1,616 incidents logged with the police in the past 12 months, around 86 per 1,000 residents.
Total incidents
1,616
Rate / 1,000
86
Categories
14
Months on file
12
By category
| Category | Incidents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violence and sexual offences | 689 | 43% |
| Anti social behaviour | 279 | 17% |
| Shoplifting | 138 | 9% |
| Criminal damage and arson | 129 | 8% |
| Public order | 116 | 7% |
| Other theft | 115 | 7% |
| Other crime | 37 | 2% |
| Drugs | 33 | 2% |
| Burglary | 26 | 2% |
| Vehicle crime | 22 | 1% |
| Robbery | 15 | 1% |
| Bicycle theft | 8 | 0% |
| Possession of weapons | 7 | 0% |
| Theft from the person | 2 | 0% |
Category by month
| Category | Jul | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence and sexual offences | 68 | 60 | 46 | 55 | 59 | 46 | 74 | 43 | 60 | 53 | 61 | 64 | 689 |
| Anti social behaviour | 47 | 31 | 17 | 25 | 16 | 24 | 22 | 11 | 16 | 28 | 25 | 17 | 279 |
| Shoplifting | 14 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 14 | 20 | 11 | 14 | 138 |
| Criminal damage and arson | 15 | 16 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 13 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 10 | 10 | 129 |
| Public order | 14 | 18 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 116 |
| Other theft | 8 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 18 | 17 | 8 | 115 |
| Other crime | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 37 | |
| Drugs | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 33 | |
| Burglary | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 26 | |
| Vehicle crime | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 22 | |||
| Robbery | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 15 | |||||
| Bicycle theft | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | |||||||
| Possession of weapons | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |||||||
| Theft from the person | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Total | 187 | 157 | 114 | 104 | 119 | 120 | 144 | 98 | 127 | 158 | 148 | 140 | 1616 |
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police.uk street-level crime for the Census neighbourhoods (LSOAs) covering Oswestry, Jul 2025 to Jun 2026. The rate uses those neighbourhoods’ Census 2021 population of 18,751.