Crime Statistics for Horwich, Bolton, Bolton, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Horwich in October 2024. There was only 2 incident. See where that was on the map below.

Crime Category	Incidents
Vehicle Crime	2
All Crime	2

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Anderton (2.24 miles)	29
Grimeford Village (1.39 miles)	16
Horwich	2
Haigh (2.24 miles)	1
Montcliffe (1.39 miles)	1
Wallsuches (1.24 miles)	0
Blackrod (1.39 miles)	0
Cooper Turning (1.86 miles)	0
Little Scotland (1.96 miles)	0
Bottom o’ th’ Moor (1.96 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Horwich?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Anderton	9
Grimeford Village	5
Haigh	1
Horwich	0
Montcliffe	0
Wallsuches	0
Blackrod	0
Cooper Turning	0
Little Scotland	0
Bottom o’ th’ Moor	0

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

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 Horwich 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 Horwich compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Smithills	79
2	Horwich North East	72
3	Hindley	66
4	Horwich and Blackrod	59
5	Westhoughton South	55
6	Aspull New Springs Whelley	53
7	Coppull	51
8	Westhoughton North and Chew Moor	50
9	Heath Charnock and Rivington	47
10	Adlington and Anderton	38
11	Standish with Langtree	32

Which road in Horwich has the highest level of crime?

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