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SY23 crime rate and statistics
The SY23 postcode district, in the SY (Shrewsbury) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 2,770 street-crime records for SY23 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 5.9% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 97.3 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 84.9 for Dyfed-Powys Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
2,770
Latest month (August 2026)
215
Year-on-year
+5.9%
Month-by-month totals
4180
167
Sep
241
Oct
175
Nov
155
Dec
143
Jan
171
Feb
222
Mar
377
Apr
418
May
229
Jun
257
Jul
215
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
167
October 2025
241
November 2025
175
December 2025
155
January 2026
143
February 2026
171
March 2026
222
April 2026
377
May 2026
418
June 2026
229
July 2026
257
August 2026
215
Street-crime records per 1,000 residents
Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.
SY23
97.3
Dyfed-Powys Police
84.9
2,770 records and 28,460 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.
No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.
Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.
Top crime categories
Share of SY23 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Violence and sexual offences37.5%
1,039 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour23.7%
657 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Public order6.9%
191 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Criminal damage and arson6.8%
187 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Drugs6.0%
165 records · England and Wales 3.4%
Other theft5.6%
155 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Shoplifting5.3%
146 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Burglary3.2%
90 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Where records cluster in SY23
Held back: SY23's postcodes spread so far that even the crime map's zoomed-out hexagons would draw too small on a phone to read as areas. Explore SY23 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for SY23 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
3,310
2022
3,473
2023
2,755
2024
2,007
2025
2,428
2026 (part year)
2,032
Is SY23 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for SY23 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 231 records a month. The busiest month was May 2026, with 418.
Records here changed by +5.9% on the 12 months before, against -1.6% across the Dyfed-Powys Police area, the main force here with 84.4% of SY23's records, over the same months.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 37.5% of records, against 35.5% across England and Wales over the same months.
The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in SY23 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.
Limits to keep in mind
Published locations are approximate; they are snapped to anonymous map points before release, and each record is assigned to a district by its nearest postcode. Counts near district boundaries are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Outcome labels in the source data are not court results or conviction rates.
Covers 100.0% of the 28,460 Census 2021 residents of SY23.
Wales: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in Wales, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of Wales's neighbourhoods and 28.1% in the least deprived 20%.
0%1
0%2
7%3
24%4
16%5
8%6
5%7
12%8
24%9
4%10
Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of Wales's small areas. Shares are rounded, so they may not total 100%.
Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.
About SY23 beyond crime
Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the
methodology page.
House prices
Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.
Year
All sales
2026 (part year)
£240,000 (163)
2025
£215,000 (309)
2024
£225,000 (326)
2023
£227,000 (265)
2022
£224,988 (424)
Show prices by property type
Year
Detached
Semi
Terraced
Flat
2026
£309,950 (75)
£225,000 (41)
£195,000 (33)
£159,975 (14)
2025
£290,000 (108)
£215,000 (86)
£182,500 (83)
£174,750 (32)
2024
£317,500 (112)
£220,000 (89)
£186,250 (96)
£168,000 (29)
2023
£292,000 (112)
£216,750 (62)
£180,000 (66)
£150,000 (25)
2022
£294,950 (152)
£205,000 (121)
£188,000 (107)
£165,000 (44)
Schools and colleges
17 open establishments with a postcode in SY23, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.
Share of the 971 postcodes in SY23 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.
Service
Every premises
Some premises
Gigabit
46.0%
72.2%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
71.5%
91.7%
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