Crime Statistics for Gorse Covert, Culcheth, Cheshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Gorse Covert in August 2024. There were a total of 232 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Gorse Covert, 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	101
Public Order	40
Anti Social Behaviour	28
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Shoplifting	16
Drugs	12
Vehicle Crime	8
Other Theft	4
Bicycle Theft	4
Other Crime	3
All Crime	232

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 Gorse Covert. 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 Gorse Covert

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Paddington (2.63 miles)	306
Gorse Covert	118
Birchwood (1.39 miles)	101
Grange (1.75 miles)	76
Oakwood (0.88 miles)	65
Locking Stumps (1.24 miles)	62
Hollinfare (2.24 miles)	10
Hollins Green (2.24 miles)	10
Warburton (2.63 miles)	9
Cadishead (2.48 miles)	8

Where are the most violent places near Gorse Covert?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Paddington	304
Gorse Covert	101
Birchwood	53
Locking Stumps	34
Grange	30
Oakwood	27
Hollinfare	4
Hollins Green	4
Warburton	4
Cadishead	3

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

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 Gorse Covert 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 Gorse Covert compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Gorse Covert and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Gorse Covert have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Poplars and Hulme.

#	Ward	Score
1	Poplars and Hulme	81
2	Latchford East	75
3	Cadishead	44
4	Poulton North	44
5	Bowdon	37
6	Poulton South	33
7	Culcheth, Glazebury and Croft	32
8	Lymm South	30
9	Lymm North and Thelwall	28
10	Rixton and Woolston	27
11	Birchwood	27

Which road in Gorse Covert has the highest level of crime?

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