Crime Statistics for Breightmet, Bolton, Bolton, 2025

Is Breightmet rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There was only 1 incident. See where that was on the map below.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Breightmet, 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	1
All Crime	1

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Breightmet. 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 Breightmet

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Tonge Moor (1.39 miles)	7
Tonge Fold (0.62 miles)	4
Breightmet	1
Mill Hill (1.24 miles)	0
Little Lever (1.39 miles)	0
Harwood (1.39 miles)	0
Burnden (1.39 miles)	0
Ainsworth (1.39 miles)	0
Halfway Houses (1.24 miles)	0
Firwood Fold (1.39 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Breightmet?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tonge Moor	2
Tonge Fold	2
Breightmet	1
Mill Hill	0
Little Lever	0
Harwood	0
Burnden	0
Ainsworth	0
Halfway Houses	0
Firwood Fold	0

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

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 Breightmet 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 Breightmet compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Farnworth	97
2	Halliwell	94
3	Tonge with the Haulgh	87
4	Great Lever	86
5	Crompton	86
6	Harper Green	84
7	Breightmet	78
8	Little Lever and Darcy Lever	69
9	Radcliffe North	64
10	Bradshaw	60
11	Bromley Cross	46

Which road in Breightmet has the highest level of crime?

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