Crime Statistics for Park Hill, West Lancashire, St Helens, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Park Hill in September 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 Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Park Hill, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime5
Vehicle Crime1
Other Theft1
All Crime7

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 Park Hill. 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 Park Hill

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Pennylands (2.56 miles)203
Chapel House (2.56 miles)113
Alt (2.55 miles)101
Rainford Junction (0.62 miles)17
Rainford (0.88 miles)16
Bickerstaffe (1.75 miles)9
Park Hill7
Rainford Brook (0.88 miles)4
Crawford (2.48 miles)2
Barrow Nook (1.24 miles)1

6.85%
of Skelmersdale South residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Park Hill?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Alt70
Pennylands56
Chapel House31
Rainford Junction8
Rainford8
Park Hill5
Bickerstaffe2
Rainford Brook1
Barrow Nook1
Crawford0

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

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 Park Hill 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 Park Hill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Park Hill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Park Hill is ranked #8.

#WardScore
1Moorside90
2Digmoor80
3Tanhouse74
4Northwood66
5Birch Green63
6Shevington51
7Skelmersdale North44
8Skelmersdale South43
9Rainford34
10Ashurst33
11Bickerstaffe19

Which road in Park Hill has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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