Total Crime Rate
84.4 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
46.4 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Cambrian Place area has the 12th highest crime rate of 28 local areas in Gobowen, Selattyn and Weston Rhyn , and the 198th highest crime rate of 1,000 local areas in Shropshire .
Neighbouring streets tend to have noticeably higher crime levels than this postcode. Crime here is lower than the average for the surrounding output areas.
The overall crime rate in the area around Cambrian Place (SY11 1QU) in the last 12 months was 84.4 per 1,000 residents and was 78.9% higher than the Gobowen, Selattyn and Weston Rhyn average (47.2 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 10 offences recorded. The least common crime was Criminal damage and arson with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Anti-social behaviour ( 20.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Violence and sexual offences ( -16.7% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 11 (≈ 46.4 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -15.4% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -70.9% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Cambrian Place (SY11 1QU), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Bailey Street, where police recorded 64 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Albion Hill (19 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Oswestry| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Coney Green | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | B5069 | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Supermarket | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Eden Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Bailey Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Bailey Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Bailey Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Bailey Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Bailey Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Llwyn Fields | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Cambrian Place | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | B5069 | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | B5069 | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Castlefields | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | B5069 | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Cambrian Place | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Cambrian Place | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Coney Green | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Coney Green | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Coney Green | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Robbery | Coney Green | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | B4580 | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Albion Hill | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Albion Hill | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Albion Hill | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Albion Hill | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Offender given a caution |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Bailey Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | B4580 | Under investigation |
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