Crime Statistics for Anchorsholme, Bispham, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Anchorsholme in September 2024. There were a total of 220 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Anchorsholme, 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	76
Anti Social Behaviour	51
Criminal Damage Arson	24
Vehicle Crime	18
Other Theft	13
Shoplifting	12
Public Order	7
Burglary	5
Theft From The Person	4
Other Crime	3
Bicycle Theft	3
Drugs	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	220

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 Anchorsholme. 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 Anchorsholme

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Warbreck (2.48 miles)	1016
Little Carleton (2.56 miles)	551
Burn Naze (0.88 miles)	408
Anchorsholme	220
Carleton (1.96 miles)	219
Trunnah (0.88 miles)	204
Bispham (1.12 miles)	167
Little Bispham (0.88 miles)	137
Breedy Butts (1.75 miles)	85
Little Thornton (1.96 miles)	64

Where are the most violent places near Anchorsholme?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Warbreck	432
Burn Naze	276
Little Carleton	233
Carleton	81
Anchorsholme	76
Trunnah	69
Bispham	65
Little Bispham	54
Breedy Butts	27
Little Thornton	15

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

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 Anchorsholme 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 Anchorsholme compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Bispham	62
2	Ingthorpe	58
3	Jubilee	53
4	Norbreck	48
5	Bourne	34
6	Anchorsholme	34
7	Marsh Mill	27
8	Cleveleys Park	26
9	Pheasant's Wood	26
10	Victoria & Norcross	20
11	Carleton	16

Which road in Anchorsholme has the highest level of crime?

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