Crime Statistics for Lea Town, Preston, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lea Town in August 2024. There were a total of 7 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Violent Crime	3
Shoplifting	1
All Crime	7

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Lea Town. 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 Lea Town

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ingol (2.48 miles)	267
Larches (1.96 miles)	263
Higher Bartle (2.24 miles)	148
Lea (1.39 miles)	90
Lower Bartle (1.75 miles)	73
Dowbridge (2.48 miles)	71
Bolton Houses (2.24 miles)	23
Lea Town	7
Catforth (2.48 miles)	3
Blackleach (1.86 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Lea Town?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ingol	129
Higher Bartle	81
Larches	69
Lea	23
Dowbridge	22
Lower Bartle	18
Bolton Houses	8
Lea Town	3
Catforth	1
Blackleach	0

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

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 Lea Town 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 Lea Town compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lea Town and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Lea Town have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Lea & Larches.

#	Ward	Score
1	Lea & Larches	76
2	Ashton	74
3	Ingol & Cottam	67
4	Cadley	65
5	Medlar-with-Wesham	45
6	Kirkham South	41
7	Kirkham North	35
8	Howick & Priory	32
9	Freckleton East	27
10	Freckleton West	23
11	Newton and Treales	16

Which road in Lea Town has the highest level of crime?

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