Crime Statistics for Lower Mountain, Hope, Flintshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lower Mountain in August 2024. There were a total of 35 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 Lower Mountain, 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	15
Public Order	4
Other Crime	4
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Vehicle Crime	2
Burglary	2
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Other Theft	2
All Crime	35

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 Lower Mountain. 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 Lower Mountain

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Yr Hob (0.88 miles)	46
Bridge End (1.24 miles)	42
Lower Mountain	36
Hope (0.88 miles)	23
Caergwrle (1.39 miles)	21
Caer-Estyn (1.39 miles)	19
Alyn (1.68 miles)	13
Abermorddu (1.96 miles)	11
Golly (1.39 miles)	2
Higher Kinnerton (1.39 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Lower Mountain?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Yr Hob	48
Bridge End	22
Lower Mountain	15
Hope	12
Caergwrle	10
Caer-Estyn	10
Alyn	4
Abermorddu	4
Golly	0
Higher Kinnerton	0

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

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 Lower Mountain 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 Lower Mountain compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lower Mountain and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Lower Mountain is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Llay	97
2	Hope	97
3	Buckley Bistre East	96
4	Broughton North East	96
5	Llanfynydd	95
6	Penyffordd	95
7	Leeswood	95
8	Caergwrle	95
9	Broughton South	95
10	Rossett	94

Which road in Lower Mountain has the highest level of crime?

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