Crime Statistics for Cocker Bar, Chorley, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cocker Bar in September 2024. There were a total of 28 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 Cocker Bar, 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	13
Anti Social Behaviour	5
Other Crime	3
Other Theft	2
Drugs	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	28

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 Cocker Bar. 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 Cocker Bar

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Earnshaw Bridge (1.86 miles)	261
Farington (2.24 miles)	78
Cocker Bar	28
New Longton (1.86 miles)	28
Farington Moss (1.75 miles)	27
Walmer Bridge (2.24 miles)	18
Little Hoole Moss Houses (1.39 miles)	17
Barber’s Moor (1.96 miles)	15
Goose Green (1.86 miles)	12
Bretherton (2.24 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Cocker Bar?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Earnshaw Bridge	78
Farington	16
Cocker Bar	13
Farington Moss	10
New Longton	7
Walmer Bridge	6
Little Hoole Moss Houses	6
Goose Green	5
Barber’s Moor	4
Bretherton	1

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

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 Cocker Bar 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 Cocker Bar compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cocker Bar and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Cocker Bar is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Seven Stars	66
2	Broadfield	62
3	Leyland Central	48
4	Earnshaw Bridge	47
5	St Ambrose	46
6	Moss Side	32
7	Farington West	27
8	Buckshaw & Worden	26
9	New Longton & Hutton East	24
10	Hoole	11
11	Longton & Hutton West	8

Which road in Cocker Bar has the highest level of crime?

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