Crime Statistics for Ulverston, South Lakeland, Cumbria, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ulverston in August 2024. There were a total of 138 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 Ulverston, 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	75
Anti Social Behaviour	17
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Other Theft	12
Public Order	8
Vehicle Crime	4
Shoplifting	2
Other Crime	2
Burglary	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	138

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 Ulverston. 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 Ulverston

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ulverston	135
Newland (1.39 miles)	108
South Ulverston (1.24 miles)	62
Dragley Beck (0.88 miles)	60
Mansriggs (1.39 miles)	39
Newland Bottom (1.39 miles)	34
Sandside (1.39 miles)	29
Croftlands (1.24 miles)	12
Rowe Head (1.39 miles)	10
Pennington (1.39 miles)	10

Where are the most violent places near Ulverston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Newland	111
Ulverston	75
South Ulverston	32
Dragley Beck	30
Mansriggs	22
Newland Bottom	22
Sandside	16
Croftlands	10
Rowe Head	3
Pennington	3

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

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 Ulverston 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 Ulverston compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ulverston and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Ulverston is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Risedale	51
2	Parkside	49
3	Ormsgill	40
4	Newbarns	31
5	Dalton South	18
6	Ulverston East	16
7	Dalton North	11
8	Hawcoat	8
9	Ulverston West	8
10	Broughton & Coniston	3
11	Furness Peninsula	0

Which road in Ulverston has the highest level of crime?

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