Shrewsbury
TownTown in Shropshire, West Midlands.
Shrewsbury is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Shrewsbury add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 87% of people in Shrewsbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Shrewsbury compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Shrewsbury safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Shrewsbury at a rate of 82.0 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 93.4 per 1,000 people across West Midlands.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 599 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Shrewsbury.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,701), other crime (1,023) and anti-social behaviour (871).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Shrewsbury was 92.2 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in Shrewsbury, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Shrewsbury has no single figure. Of its 47 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 8 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Shrewsbury
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shropshire 014A | 1,362 | 32.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.2% |
| Shropshire 015A | 1,494 | 60.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.2% |
| Shropshire 015B | 1,624 | 111.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.4% |
| Shropshire 015C | 1,514 | 106.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.4% |
| Shropshire 015D | 1,831 | 172.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Shropshire 015E | 1,720 | 90.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 91.1% |
| Shropshire 016B | 1,780 | 55.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.7% |
| Shropshire 016C | 1,612 | 68.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Shropshire 016D | 1,981 | 109.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.9% |
| Shropshire 016E | 2,061 | 124.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 90.1% |
| Shropshire 016F | 1,660 | 17.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 89.6% |
| Shropshire 017A | 1,812 | 32.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.9% |
| Shropshire 017B | 2,185 | 83.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 86.4% |
| Shropshire 017C | 1,970 | 43.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.6% |
| Shropshire 017D | 1,987 | 89.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.5% |
| Shropshire 018A | 1,318 | 137.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Shropshire 018B | 1,271 | 34.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.4% |
| Shropshire 018C | 1,499 | 101.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.1% |
| Shropshire 018D | 1,369 | 53.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.3% |
| Shropshire 018E | 1,615 | 67.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.9% |
| Shropshire 018F | 1,582 | 52.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.3% |
| Shropshire 019B | 1,922 | 28.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.2% |
| Shropshire 019C | 1,952 | 75.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 94.6% |
| Shropshire 019E | 1,052 | 494.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 45.6% |
| Shropshire 019F | 1,362 | 38.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 85.0% |
| Shropshire 019G | 1,188 | 637.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 44.2% |
| Shropshire 019H | 1,009 | 109.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 84.6% |
| Shropshire 020B | 1,626 | 79.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.9% |
| Shropshire 020C | 2,152 | 59.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.6% |
| Shropshire 020D | 2,024 | 21.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 83.7% |
| Shropshire 020E | 1,562 | 45.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 89.1% |
| Shropshire 020F | 1,462 | 87.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.4% |
| Shropshire 020G | 1,833 | 25.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.6% |
| Shropshire 021A | 1,711 | 34.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.8% |
| Shropshire 021B | 1,380 | 71.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.7% |
| Shropshire 021C | 1,508 | 53.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.2% |
| Shropshire 021D | 1,261 | 28.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.2% |
| Shropshire 022A | 1,537 | 54.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.2% |
| Shropshire 022B | 1,567 | 53.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.3% |
| Shropshire 022C | 1,297 | 69.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.4% |
| Shropshire 022D | 2,173 | 61.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.4% |
| Shropshire 023A | 1,554 | 34.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.6% |
| Shropshire 023B | 1,589 | 22.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.8% |
| Shropshire 023C | 1,573 | 88.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.5% |
| Shropshire 023D | 1,598 | 135.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.9% |
| Shropshire 023E | 1,909 | 17.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.4% |
| Shropshire 023F | 1,746 | 33.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 80.6% |
Your MP
- Julia BuckleyLabourMP for Shrewsbury
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Shrewsbury3
Middle areas in Shrewsbury9
Towns near Shrewsbury6
Shrewsbury in brief
Shrewsbury is a town in Shropshire, West Midlands.
About 79,284 people lived in Shrewsbury in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £265,000 in 2025 across 1,204 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 82.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Shrewsbury was £265,000 in 2025.
Shrewsbury had 76,013 usual residents at the census.
About 87% of people in Shrewsbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Shrewsbury, 92.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.