Crime Statistics for Moorclose, Allerdale, Cumbria, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Moorclose in August 2024. There were a total of 137 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Moorclose, 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	49
Criminal Damage Arson	23
Public Order	17
Other Theft	15
Burglary	9
Shoplifting	7
Anti Social Behaviour	5
Vehicle Crime	5
Other Crime	4
Drugs	3
All Crime	137

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 Moorclose. 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 Moorclose

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

Location	Crime Incidents
North Side (1.39 miles)	296
Moorclose	137
Barepot (1.75 miles)	115
Salterbeck (0.62 miles)	112
Mossbay (0.62 miles)	67
Harrington (1.39 miles)	58
Grayson Green (1.24 miles)	49
High Harrington (1.39 miles)	36
Stainburn (2.24 miles)	34
Siddick (2.56 miles)	20

Where are the most violent places near Moorclose?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
North Side	108
Barepot	87
Salterbeck	63
Moorclose	49
Stainburn	36
Harrington	34
Mossbay	27
Grayson Green	20
High Harrington	14
Siddick	5

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

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 Moorclose 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 Moorclose compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	St Michael's	77
2	Moorclose & Moss Bay	76
3	St John's	56
4	Harrington & Salterbeck	46
5	Arlecdon & Ennerdale	40
6	Stainburn & Clifton	24
7	Seaton & Northside	21
8	Distington, Lowca & Parton	14
9	Hillcrest	13
10	Moresby	6
11	Dalton	0

Which road in Moorclose has the highest level of crime?

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