Crime Statistics for Abraham Heights, Lancaster, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Abraham Heights in October 2024. There were a total of 77 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	27
Violent Crime	17
Burglary	10
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Public Order	7
Vehicle Crime	3
Shoplifting	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Other Theft	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	77

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Abraham Heights. 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 Abraham Heights

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lancaster (0.62 miles)	370
Morecambe (2.77 miles)	361
Torrisholme (1.96 miles)	211
Bare (1.96 miles)	211
Abraham Heights	77
Lower Heysham (3.1 miles)	70
Bailrigg (2.24 miles)	42
Aldcliffe (0.62 miles)	12
Heaton (1.39 miles)	2
Stodday (1.86 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Abraham Heights?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Morecambe	138
Lancaster	86
Torrisholme	52
Bare	52
Lower Heysham	25
Abraham Heights	17
Bailrigg	9
Aldcliffe	5
Heaton	1
Stodday	0

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

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 Abraham Heights 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 Abraham Heights compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Abraham Heights and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Abraham Heights is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Skerton East	91
2	Bulk	85
3	Skerton West	72
4	Westgate	63
5	Castle	60
6	Marsh	57
7	Scotforth West	43
8	Scotforth East	34
9	Torrisholme	30
10	John O'Gaunt	21
11	Lower Lune Valley	17

Which road in Abraham Heights has the highest level of crime?

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