Crime Statistics for Water Garth Nook, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Water Garth Nook in August 2024. There were a total of 22 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Water Garth Nook, 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 Crime11
Other Crime5
Other Theft2
Vehicle Crime2
Public Order1
Anti Social Behaviour1
All Crime22

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 Water Garth Nook. 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 Water Garth Nook

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Newbarns (2.63 miles)706
Salthouse (1.75 miles)385
Barrow-in-Furness (1.39 miles)361
Beacon Hill (2.63 miles)349
South Newbarns (2.24 miles)260
Croslands Park (3.1 miles)114
North Scale (1.86 miles)69
Newton (3.51 miles)63
North Walney (1.39 miles)36
Water Garth Nook15

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of residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Water Garth Nook?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Newbarns318
South Newbarns237
Salthouse167
Beacon Hill161
Barrow-in-Furness159
Croslands Park48
Newton33
North Scale27
North Walney18
Water Garth Nook11

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Water Garth Nook?

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 Water Garth Nook 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 Water Garth Nook compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Barrow Island88
2Central82
3Hindpool69
4Risedale51
5Parkside49
6Ormsgill40
7Newbarns31
8Walney North19
9Walney South19
10Roosecote13
11Hawcoat8

Which road in Water Garth Nook has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Water Garth Nook 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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