Crime Statistics for Little Marton, Marton Bank, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Little Marton in August 2024. There were a total of 863 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 Little Marton, 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	305
Anti Social Behaviour	264
Shoplifting	60
Other Theft	48
Criminal Damage Arson	48
Vehicle Crime	36
Public Order	28
Possession Of Weapons	20
Burglary	20
Drugs	12
Theft From The Person	8
Robbery	8
Other Crime	6
All Crime	863

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 Little Marton. 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 Little Marton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Layton (1.75 miles)	1032
Little Marton	436
Great Marton (0.62 miles)	329
Common Edge (1.75 miles)	266
Marton Moss Side (0.88 miles)	238
Peel Hill (0.88 miles)	222
Staining (1.24 miles)	108
Main Dyke (1.06 miles)	104
Great Marton Moss (1.96 miles)	64
Peel (1.96 miles)	10

Where are the most violent places near Little Marton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Layton	627
Little Marton	305
Great Marton	101
Common Edge	96
Peel Hill	93
Marton Moss Side	75
Main Dyke	53
Staining	34
Great Marton Moss	22
Peel	4

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

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 Little Marton 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 Little Marton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Little Marton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Little Marton is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Waterloo	93
2	Victoria	90
3	Tyldesley	86
4	Marton	84
5	Hawes Side	76
6	Clifton	65
7	Highfield	61
8	Stanley	34
9	Warton and Westby	31
10	Staining and Weeton	25
11	St Leonards	18

Which road in Little Marton has the highest level of crime?

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