Crime Statistics for Blackpool, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Blackpool in October 2024. There were a total of 1957 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 Blackpool, 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	835
Anti Social Behaviour	464
Shoplifting	109
Criminal Damage Arson	100
Other Theft	92
Vehicle Crime	83
Public Order	79
Burglary	67
Other Crime	34
Robbery	30
Drugs	22
Bicycle Theft	16
Possession Of Weapons	15
Theft From The Person	11
All Crime	1957

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 Blackpool. 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 Blackpool

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Layton (0.62 miles)	2005
Little Layton (0.88 miles)	1964
Blackpool	1823
Hoohill (0.88 miles)	1161
Warbreck (1.39 miles)	1080
Little Carleton (1.75 miles)	663
Great Marton (1.75 miles)	366
North Shore (1.39 miles)	345
South Shore (1.96 miles)	288
Staining (1.86 miles)	246

Where are the most violent places near Blackpool?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Layton	835
Blackpool	835
Little Layton	742
Warbreck	469
Hoohill	429
Little Carleton	196
North Shore	164
Great Marton	115
Staining	86
South Shore	85

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

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 Blackpool 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 Blackpool compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Blackpool and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Blackpool is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bloomfield	99
2	Claremont	96
3	Talbot	94
4	Brunswick	94
5	Waterloo	93
6	Victoria	90
7	Tyldesley	86
8	Layton	82
9	Warbreck	82
10	Hawes Side	76
11	Greenlands	52

Which road in Blackpool has the highest level of crime?

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