Crime Statistics for Latchford, Warrington, Cheshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Latchford in September 2024. There were a total of 281 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Latchford, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	119
Anti Social Behaviour	35
Shoplifting	30
Public Order	25
Other Theft	21
Drugs	19
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Burglary	6
Possession Of Weapons	5
Other Crime	3
Bicycle Theft	3
Theft From The Person	2
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	281

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Latchford. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Latchford

We've taken the ten nearest places to Latchford and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Latchford has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Warrington (0.88 miles)	575
Bruche (1.39 miles)	512
Longford (1.96 miles)	489
Blackwood (1.96 miles)	291
Latchford	281
Bewsey (1.75 miles)	237
Paddington (1.75 miles)	127
Birchwood (3.1 miles)	101
Grange (2.63 miles)	101
Moore (2.63 miles)	22

Where are the most violent places near Latchford?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Latchford and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Longford	287
Bruche	270
Warrington	258
Blackwood	158
Latchford	119
Bewsey	103
Paddington	76
Grange	72
Birchwood	53
Moore	3

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Latchford?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Latchford to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Latchford compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Latchford and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Latchford is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Orford	77
2	Latchford East	75
3	Fairfield and Howley	73
4	Bewsey and Whitecross	68
5	Latchford West	43
6	Great Sankey South	41
7	Stockton Heath	36
8	Poulton South	33
9	Rixton and Woolston	27
10	Grappenhall	22
11	Appleton	17

Which road in Latchford has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Latchford with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.