Crime Statistics for Tonge Fold, Bolton, Bolton, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Tonge Fold in August 2024. There were a total of 4 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Burglary.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Tonge Fold, 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	2
Burglary	1
Other Theft	1
All Crime	4

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Mill Hill (0.62 miles)	4
Tonge Fold	4
Little Lever (1.75 miles)	1
Great Lever (1.39 miles)	1
Tonge Moor (0.88 miles)	1
Hall i’ th’ Wood (1.39 miles)	0
Harwood (1.75 miles)	0
Breightmet (0.62 miles)	0
Burnden (1.24 miles)	0
Firwood Fold (1.24 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Tonge Fold?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Mill Hill	2
Tonge Fold	2
Tonge Moor	2
Little Lever	1
Great Lever	1
Hall i’ th’ Wood	0
Harwood	0
Breightmet	0
Burnden	0
Firwood Fold	0

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

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 Tonge Fold 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 Tonge Fold compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Tonge Fold and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Tonge Fold is ranked #9.

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

Which road in Tonge Fold has the highest level of crime?

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