Crime Statistics for Frenchwood, South Ribble, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Frenchwood in October 2024. There were a total of 455 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 Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	142
Violent Crime	96
Shoplifting	78
Public Order	26
Criminal Damage Arson	20
Drugs	20
Other Theft	16
Other Crime	14
Vehicle Crime	11
Burglary	10
Bicycle Theft	8
Robbery	6
Possession Of Weapons	4
Theft From The Person	4
All Crime	455

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 Frenchwood. 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 Frenchwood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ribbleton (1.75 miles)	865
Fulwood (1.86 miles)	735
Lower Penwortham (0.62 miles)	650
Frenchwood	455
Bamber Bridge (1.75 miles)	348
Fishwick (1.39 miles)	307
Walton-le-Dale (0.88 miles)	274
Higher Walton (1.96 miles)	193
Lostock Hall (1.86 miles)	64
Higher Penwortham (1.86 miles)	39

Where are the most violent places near Frenchwood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lower Penwortham	308
Ribbleton	205
Fulwood	196
Walton-le-Dale	176
Frenchwood	96
Bamber Bridge	94
Fishwick	77
Higher Walton	73
Lostock Hall	17
Higher Penwortham	11

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

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 Frenchwood 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 Frenchwood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Frenchwood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Frenchwood is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Matthew's	97
2	City Centre	82
3	Fishwick & Frenchwood	81
4	Middleforth	64
5	Bamber Bridge West	53
6	Charnock	50
7	Walton-le-Dale East	39
8	Lostock Hall	34
9	Broad Oak	32
10	Howick & Priory	32
11	Walton-le-Dale West	24

Which road in Frenchwood has the highest level of crime?

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