Crime Statistics for Aughton, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Aughton in September 2024. There were a total of 32 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 CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour16
Criminal Damage Arson8
Burglary4
Violent Crime4
All Crime32

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 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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Moss Side (1.24 miles)110
Maghull (2.24 miles)64
Holt Green (0.62 miles)50
Alt (2.69 miles)32
Town Green (0.62 miles)25
Aughton Park (1.39 miles)19
Bowker’s Green (0.88 miles)18
Aughton16
Royal Oak (1.75 miles)11
Downholland Cross (1.96 miles)1

3.58%
of Aughton and Downholland residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Moss Side59
Alt43
Holt Green37
Maghull25
Bowker’s Green13
Royal Oak10
Aughton Park8
Town Green5
Aughton4
Downholland Cross1

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.

#WardScore
1Whitefield63
2Shevington51
3Halsall41
4Scott34
5Sudell27
6Park24
7Aughton and Downholland23
8Derby22
9Bickerstaffe19
10Knowsley18
11Aughton Park9

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 Norris House Drive.

Last updated: September 2024
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