Crime Statistics for Chorley, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Chorley in October 2024. There were a total of 276 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 Chorley, 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	90
Anti Social Behaviour	87
Shoplifting	20
Criminal Damage Arson	18
Other Theft	16
Public Order	13
Vehicle Crime	11
Burglary	8
Drugs	4
Possession Of Weapons	3
Bicycle Theft	3
Other Crime	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	276

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 Chorley. 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 Chorley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hartwood (1.24 miles)	290
Chorley	276
Coppull (2.24 miles)	123
Birkacre (1.39 miles)	86
Charnock Richard (2.24 miles)	80
Heath Charnock (1.96 miles)	27
Euxton (1.96 miles)	25
Charnock Green (1.96 miles)	14
Bolton Green (1.86 miles)	2
Pincock (1.86 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Chorley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hartwood	108
Chorley	90
Charnock Richard	64
Coppull	41
Birkacre	30
Heath Charnock	15
Euxton	9
Charnock Green	7
Bolton Green	0
Pincock	0

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

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 Chorley 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 Chorley compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Chorley East	69
2	Chorley South East	63
3	Chorley North East	62
4	Chorley South West	59
5	Coppull	51
6	Chorley North West	41
7	Pennine	40
8	Chisnall	26
9	Astley and Buckshaw	22
10	Euxton North	21
11	Euxton South	6

Which road in Chorley has the highest level of crime?

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