Crime Statistics for Adlington, Chorley, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Adlington in September 2024. There were a total of 33 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	12
Violent Crime	9
Shoplifting	4
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Public Order	2
Other Theft	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	33

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 Adlington. 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 Adlington

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Birkacre (2.24 miles)	95
Heath Charnock (0.88 miles)	34
Adlington	33
Anderton	33
Grimeford Village (0.88 miles)	9
Blackrod (1.96 miles)	0
Little Scotland (1.86 miles)	0
Adlington Park (1.75 miles)	0
Haigh (2.48 miles)	0
Horwich (2.24 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Adlington?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Birkacre	32
Heath Charnock	11
Adlington	9
Anderton	9
Grimeford Village	3
Blackrod	0
Little Scotland	0
Adlington Park	0
Haigh	0
Horwich	0

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

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 Adlington 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 Adlington compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Chorley East	69
2	Chorley South East	63
3	Chorley North East	62
4	Chorley South West	59
5	Horwich and Blackrod	59
6	Aspull New Springs Whelley	53
7	Coppull	51
8	Shevington with Lower Ground	42
9	Chorley North West	41
10	Adlington and Anderton	38
11	Standish with Langtree	32

Which road in Adlington has the highest level of crime?

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