Crime Statistics for Hoole, Chester, Cheshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hoole in August 2024. There were a total of 332 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Hoole, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime100
Anti Social Behaviour74
Public Order41
Shoplifting28
Drugs23
Criminal Damage Arson20
Other Theft19
Burglary10
Other Crime6
Bicycle Theft5
Theft From The Person3
Possession Of Weapons1
Robbery1
Vehicle Crime1
All Crime332

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 Hoole. 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 Hoole

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Boughton (0.88 miles)455
Chester (1.39 miles)422
Hoole332
Lache (3.1 miles)80
Broughton (5.54 miles)41
Bretton (5 miles)38
Saltney (3.62 miles)34
Lower Kinnerton (5.85 miles)31
Shotwick (6.1 miles)7
Gorstella (5.33 miles)2

11.9%
of Handbridge Park residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Hoole?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Boughton174
Chester112
Hoole100
Lache32
Lower Kinnerton15
Saltney11
Broughton10
Bretton10
Shotwick3
Gorstella1

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

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 Hoole 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 Hoole compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hoole and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hoole is ranked #7.

#WardScore
1Sealand99
2Saltney Mold Junction98
3Saltney Stonebridge96
4Blacon76
5Chester City & the Garden Quarter58
6Lache56
7Handbridge Park37
8Newton & Hoole33
9Upton30
10Great Boughton26
11Christleton & Huntington19

Which road in Hoole has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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