Crime Statistics for Barrow Nook, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Barrow Nook in September 2024. There was only 1 incident. See where that was on the map below.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Barrow Nook, 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	1
All Crime	1

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 Barrow Nook. 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 Barrow Nook

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Tower Hill (2.24 miles)	216
Northwood (2.24 miles)	216
Alt (1.43 miles)	101
Rainford Junction (1.86 miles)	17
Rainford (1.96 miles)	16
Royal Oak (1.96 miles)	13
Bickerstaffe (1.24 miles)	9
Park Hill (1.24 miles)	7
Rainford Brook (1.41 miles)	4
Barrow Nook	1

Where are the most violent places near Barrow Nook?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tower Hill	84
Northwood	79
Alt	70
Royal Oak	11
Rainford Junction	8
Rainford	8
Park Hill	5
Bickerstaffe	2
Rainford Brook	1
Barrow Nook	1

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

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 Barrow Nook 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 Barrow Nook compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Barrow Nook and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Barrow Nook have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Digmoor.

#	Ward	Score
1	Digmoor	80
2	Northwood	66
3	Birch Green	63
4	Whitefield	63
5	Prescot North	57
6	Shevington	51
7	Skelmersdale North	44
8	Skelmersdale South	43
9	Rainford	34
10	Sudell	27
11	Bickerstaffe	19

Which road in Barrow Nook has the highest level of crime?

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