Crime Statistics for Newton-le-Willows, St Helens, St Helens, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Newton-le-Willows in September 2024. There were a total of 338 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Newton-le-Willows, 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	158
Other Theft	34
Drugs	30
Anti Social Behaviour	30
Public Order	28
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Shoplifting	14
Vehicle Crime	12
Other Crime	6
Burglary	6
Possession Of Weapons	2
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	338

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 Newton-le-Willows. 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 Newton-le-Willows

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Newton-le-Willows	320
Old Boston (1.39 miles)	118
Newton Park (0.88 miles)	102
Wargrave (0.62 miles)	101
Town of Lowton (1.24 miles)	86
Earlestown (1.24 miles)	83
Rainford Brook (0.97 miles)	77
Collins Green (1.96 miles)	74
Hermitage Green (1.39 miles)	51
Kenyon (2.48 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Newton-le-Willows?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Newton-le-Willows	158
Town of Lowton	87
Newton Park	60
Wargrave	53
Old Boston	47
Collins Green	45
Earlestown	40
Hermitage Green	38
Rainford Brook	28
Kenyon	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Newton-le-Willows?

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 Newton-le-Willows 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 Newton-le-Willows compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Newton-le-Willows and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Newton-le-Willows is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Abram	83
2	Parr	83
3	Earlestown	67
4	Burtonwood and Winwick	58
5	Newton	56
6	Golborne and Lowton West	49
7	Blackbrook	48
8	Chapelford and Old Hall	48
9	Ashton	45
10	Haydock	39
11	Westbrook	37

Which road in Newton-le-Willows has the highest level of crime?

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