Crime Statistics for Crow Wood, Widnes, Cheshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Crow Wood in September 2024. There were a total of 406 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Crow Wood, 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	175
Shoplifting	46
Public Order	41
Criminal Damage Arson	29
Anti Social Behaviour	29
Other Crime	20
Other Theft	14
Drugs	13
Burglary	12
Bicycle Theft	11
Vehicle Crime	7
Robbery	5
Possession Of Weapons	3
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	406

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 Crow Wood. 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 Crow Wood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Barrow’s Green (0.62 miles)	508
Appleton (0.62 miles)	341
Halton View	341
Crow Wood	309
Farnworth (0.88 miles)	220
Halton Brook (2.48 miles)	204
Higher Runcorn (2.56 miles)	173
Cronton (2.24 miles)	77
Town End (2.24 miles)	69
Bold Heath (1.96 miles)	19

Where are the most violent places near Crow Wood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Barrow’s Green	180
Crow Wood	175
Farnworth	154
Halton Brook	146
Appleton	141
Halton View	134
Higher Runcorn	69
Cronton	54
Town End	33
Bold Heath	1

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

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 Crow Wood 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 Crow Wood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Crow Wood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Crow Wood is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Kingsway	86
2	Appleton	85
3	Riverside	81
4	Halton Castle	76
5	Broadheath	75
6	Mersey	73
7	Hough Green	69
8	Halton Brook	66
9	Ditton	62
10	Halton View	48
11	Birchfield	29

Which road in Crow Wood has the highest level of crime?

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