Crime Statistics for Walton-le-Dale, South Ribble, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Walton-le-Dale in September 2024. There were a total of 492 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	156
Violent Crime	152
Shoplifting	40
Burglary	36
Criminal Damage Arson	28
Public Order	20
Other Theft	20
Vehicle Crime	16
Other Crime	12
Drugs	8
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	492

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 Walton-le-Dale. 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 Walton-le-Dale

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Frenchwood (0.88 miles)	364
Lower Penwortham (1.39 miles)	329
Fishwick (1.39 miles)	255
Walton-le-Dale	246
Walton Summit (1.75 miles)	224
Bamber Bridge (0.88 miles)	184
Higher Walton (1.24 miles)	124
Cuerden Green (1.86 miles)	104
Lostock Hall (1.39 miles)	82
Tardy Gate (1.75 miles)	53

Where are the most violent places near Walton-le-Dale?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Walton-le-Dale	152
Frenchwood	103
Fishwick	82
Lower Penwortham	67
Higher Walton	67
Bamber Bridge	63
Walton Summit	61
Cuerden Green	51
Lostock Hall	25
Tardy Gate	17

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Walton-le-Dale?

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 Walton-le-Dale 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 Walton-le-Dale compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Walton-le-Dale and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Walton-le-Dale have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is St Matthew's.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Matthew's	97
2	City Centre	82
3	Fishwick & Frenchwood	81
4	Middleforth	64
5	Bamber Bridge West	53
6	Charnock	50
7	Bamber Bridge East	49
8	Walton-le-Dale East	39
9	Lostock Hall	34
10	Broad Oak	32
11	Walton-le-Dale West	24

Which road in Walton-le-Dale has the highest level of crime?

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