Crime Statistics for Cocker Bar, Chorley, Lancashire, 2025

Is Cocker Bar rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 45 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime24
Anti Social Behaviour8
Other Crime5
Criminal Damage Arson3
Other Theft2
Vehicle Crime2
Drugs1
All Crime45

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Earnshaw Bridge (1.86 miles)400
Farington (2.24 miles)69
Cocker Bar45
Farington Moss (1.75 miles)26
Little Hoole Moss Houses (1.39 miles)19
Walmer Bridge (2.24 miles)16
New Longton (1.86 miles)16
Goose Green (1.86 miles)9
Barber’s Moor (1.96 miles)8
Bretherton (2.24 miles)1

4.73%
of Moss Side (South Ribble) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Earnshaw Bridge149
Cocker Bar24
Farington17
Farington Moss7
Little Hoole Moss Houses5
Walmer Bridge4
New Longton4
Goose Green1
Barber’s Moor1
Bretherton0

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.

#WardScore
1Seven Stars66
2Broadfield62
3Leyland Central48
4Earnshaw Bridge47
5St Ambrose46
6Moss Side32
7Farington West27
8Buckshaw & Worden26
9New Longton & Hutton East24
10Hoole11
11Longton & Hutton West8

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 Cocker Lane.

Last updated: January 2025
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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