Crime Statistics for Palacefields, Runcorn, Cheshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Palacefields in September 2024. There were a total of 113 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 Palacefields, 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	50
Anti Social Behaviour	15
Drugs	10
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Vehicle Crime	6
Public Order	6
Shoplifting	6
Other Crime	5
Burglary	3
Other Theft	3
Possession Of Weapons	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	113

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 Palacefields. 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 Palacefields

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Halton View (3.93 miles)	341
Halton Brook (1.75 miles)	204
Higher Runcorn (2.24 miles)	173
Brookvale	113
Palacefields	113
Keckwick (2.63 miles)	92
Beechwood (0.62 miles)	84
Marsh Green (2.63 miles)	70
Frodsham (2.24 miles)	61
Moore (3.51 miles)	22

Where are the most violent places near Palacefields?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Halton Brook	146
Halton View	134
Higher Runcorn	69
Beechwood	65
Keckwick	64
Brookvale	50
Palacefields	50
Frodsham	24
Marsh Green	22
Moore	3

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

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 Palacefields 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 Palacefields compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Palacefields and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Palacefields is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Windmill Hill	82
2	Grange	77
3	Halton Castle	76
4	Mersey	73
5	Halton Lea	67
6	Halton Brook	66
7	Norton South	56
8	Norton North	44
9	Frodsham	34
10	Beechwood	15
11	Daresbury	10

Which road in Palacefields has the highest level of crime?

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