Crime Statistics for Far Banks, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Far Banks in August 2024. There were a total of 21 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour8
Violent Crime8
Drugs2
Other Crime1
Shoplifting1
Burglary1
All Crime21

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Far Banks. 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 Far Banks

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Marshside (2.77 miles)71
Fiddler’s Ferry (1.96 miles)53
Crossens (2.24 miles)52
Banks (0.88 miles)26
Becconsall (2.55 miles)23
Far Banks21
Hesketh Bank (2.24 miles)8
Tarleton Moss (1.86 miles)4
Hesketh Moss (1.96 miles)4
Holmes (2.63 miles)3

4%
of Meols residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Far Banks?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Crossens41
Marshside33
Fiddler’s Ferry27
Banks16
Becconsall8
Far Banks8
Hesketh Bank2
Holmes2
Hesketh Moss1
Tarleton Moss0

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

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 Far Banks 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 Far Banks compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Far Banks and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Far Banks is ranked #8.

#WardScore
1Duke's55
2Norwood37
3Cambridge34
4Clifton32
5Lostock29
6North Meols29
7St Johns19
8Meols19
9Tarleton16
10Hesketh-with-Becconsall11
11Hoole11

Which road in Far Banks has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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