Crime Statistics for Longford, Warrington, Cheshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Longford in September 2024. There were a total of 628 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 Longford, 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	287
Public Order	76
Anti Social Behaviour	61
Criminal Damage Arson	54
Other Theft	37
Drugs	34
Shoplifting	20
Burglary	18
Other Crime	16
Vehicle Crime	9
Bicycle Theft	8
Robbery	4
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	628

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 Longford. 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 Longford

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Warrington (1.24 miles)	575
Bruche (1.39 miles)	512
Longford	489
Blackwood (1.24 miles)	291
Latchford (1.96 miles)	281
Bewsey (0.88 miles)	237
Paddington (1.96 miles)	127
Birchwood (2.56 miles)	101
Grange (2.48 miles)	101
Hermitage Green (2.48 miles)	51

Where are the most violent places near Longford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Longford	287
Bruche	270
Warrington	258
Blackwood	158
Latchford	119
Bewsey	103
Paddington	76
Grange	72
Birchwood	53
Hermitage Green	38

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

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 Longford 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 Longford compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Poplars and Hulme	81
2	Orford	77
3	Fairfield and Howley	73
4	Bewsey and Whitecross	68
5	Chapelford and Old Hall	48
6	Poulton North	44
7	Latchford West	43
8	Great Sankey South	41
9	Westbrook	37
10	Poulton South	33
11	Rixton and Woolston	27

Which road in Longford has the highest level of crime?

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