Crime Statistics for Abbey Village, Chorley, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Abbey Village in September 2024. There were a total of 5 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Other Theft	1
Violent Crime	1
All Crime	5

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 Abbey Village. 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 Abbey Village

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ewood (2.63 miles)	283
Waterloo (2.24 miles)	108
Feniscliffe (2.56 miles)	77
Pleasington (2.48 miles)	48
Cherry Tree (1.96 miles)	44
Feniscowles (1.86 miles)	16
Abbey Village	5
Brinscall (1.39 miles)	5
Higher Wheelton (1.86 miles)	5
Tockholes (1.39 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Abbey Village?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ewood	101
Pleasington	48
Waterloo	42
Feniscliffe	33
Cherry Tree	21
Feniscowles	15
Abbey Village	1
Brinscall	1
Higher Wheelton	0
Tockholes	0

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

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 Abbey Village 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 Abbey Village compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Mill Hill & Moorgate	87
2	Darwen East	84
3	Ewood	82
4	Darwen West	74
5	Wensley Fold	69
6	Darwen South	64
7	Livesey with Pleasington	47
8	Brindle and Hoghton	43
9	Pennine	40
10	Wheelton and Withnell	22
11	Clayton-le-Woods and Whittle-le-Woods	20

Which road in Abbey Village has the highest level of crime?

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