Crime Statistics for Bamber Bridge, South Ribble, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bamber Bridge in September 2024. There were a total of 223 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 Bamber Bridge, 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	63
Anti Social Behaviour	60
Criminal Damage Arson	26
Shoplifting	20
Burglary	15
Public Order	10
Vehicle Crime	9
Other Theft	9
Other Crime	5
Theft From The Person	2
Drugs	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	223

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 Bamber Bridge. 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 Bamber Bridge

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Frenchwood (1.75 miles)	439
Fishwick (1.86 miles)	268
Walton Summit (0.88 miles)	202
Bamber Bridge	184
Walton-le-Dale (0.88 miles)	163
Higher Walton (0.88 miles)	141
Cuerden Green (1.39 miles)	109
Lostock Hall (1.39 miles)	81
Jack Green (1.96 miles)	64
Gregson Lane (1.86 miles)	25

Where are the most violent places near Bamber Bridge?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Frenchwood	122
Fishwick	68
Bamber Bridge	63
Walton Summit	58
Higher Walton	41
Walton-le-Dale	40
Jack Green	37
Cuerden Green	26
Lostock Hall	18
Gregson Lane	11

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

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 Bamber Bridge 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 Bamber Bridge compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bamber Bridge and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bamber Bridge is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Fishwick & Frenchwood	81
2	Clayton-le-Woods North	68
3	Middleforth	64
4	Bamber Bridge West	53
5	Charnock	50
6	Bamber Bridge East	49
7	Farington East	41
8	Walton-le-Dale East	39
9	Lostock Hall	34
10	Walton-le-Dale West	24
11	Coupe Green & Gregson Lane	12

Which road in Bamber Bridge has the highest level of crime?

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