Crime Statistics for Aughton, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Aughton in October 2024. There were a total of 13 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Burglary.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Aughton, 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	5
Burglary	3
Other Theft	2
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Drugs	1
All Crime	13

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 Aughton. 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 Aughton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Maghull (2.24 miles)	145
Moss Side (1.24 miles)	62
Holt Green (0.62 miles)	33
Town Green (0.62 miles)	32
Bowker’s Green (0.88 miles)	30
Alt (2.69 miles)	22
Aughton Park (1.39 miles)	20
Aughton	13
Royal Oak (1.75 miles)	7
Downholland Cross (1.96 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Aughton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Maghull	42
Holt Green	29
Moss Side	23
Town Green	17
Alt	15
Bowker’s Green	14
Royal Oak	8
Aughton Park	6
Aughton	5
Downholland Cross	3

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

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 Aughton 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 Aughton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Aughton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Aughton is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Whitefield	63
2	Shevington	51
3	Halsall	41
4	Scott	34
5	Sudell	27
6	Park	24
7	Aughton and Downholland	23
8	Derby	22
9	Bickerstaffe	19
10	Knowsley	18
11	Aughton Park	9

Which road in Aughton has the highest level of crime?

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