Crime Statistics for Fishwick, Preston, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Fishwick in September 2024. There were a total of 255 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 Behaviour84
Violent Crime82
Public Order18
Criminal Damage Arson17
Vehicle Crime14
Other Theft10
Shoplifting10
Other Crime7
Burglary6
Drugs3
Possession Of Weapons2
Robbery1
Theft From The Person1
All Crime255

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 Fishwick. 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 Fishwick

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Ribbleton (0.62 miles)625
Holme Slack (1.39 miles)581
Grange (1.39 miles)524
Brookfield (1.24 miles)518
Fulwood (1.75 miles)475
Frenchwood (1.39 miles)364
Fishwick255
Walton-le-Dale (1.39 miles)246
Bamber Bridge (1.86 miles)184
Higher Walton (1.39 miles)124

34.51%
of Fishwick & Frenchwood residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Fishwick?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Fulwood311
Ribbleton235
Holme Slack190
Brookfield152
Walton-le-Dale152
Grange148
Frenchwood103
Fishwick82
Higher Walton67
Bamber Bridge63

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

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 Fishwick 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 Fishwick compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Fishwick and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Fishwick is ranked #5.

#WardScore
1St Matthew's97
2Brookfield84
3Plungington82
4City Centre82
5Fishwick & Frenchwood81
6Deepdale80
7Ribbleton79
8Bamber Bridge West53
9Bamber Bridge East49
10Walton-le-Dale East39
11Walton-le-Dale West24

Which road in Fishwick has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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