Crime Statistics for Grimsargh, Preston, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Grimsargh in October 2024. There were a total of 31 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	12
Violent Crime	4
Public Order	3
Vehicle Crime	3
Other Theft	3
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Burglary	2
Other Crime	1
All Crime	31

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 Grimsargh. 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 Grimsargh

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Brookfield (2.24 miles)	495
Grange (1.96 miles)	270
Red Scar (1.24 miles)	120
Longridge (2.24 miles)	59
Grimsargh	31
Haighton Top (1.86 miles)	31
Cumeragh Village (1.75 miles)	21
Haighton Green (1.24 miles)	15
Samlesbury (2.56 miles)	8
Goosnargh (2.24 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Grimsargh?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Brookfield	131
Grange	76
Red Scar	37
Longridge	21
Haighton Top	11
Haighton Green	8
Cumeragh Village	6
Grimsargh	4
Goosnargh	3
Samlesbury	1

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

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 Grimsargh 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 Grimsargh compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	St Matthew's	97
2	Brookfield	84
3	Plungington	82
4	Fishwick & Frenchwood	81
5	Ribbleton	79
6	Derby & Thornley	59
7	Preston Rural East	38
8	Garrison	31
9	Dilworth	24
10	Garrison	23
11	Alston & Hothersall	21

Which road in Grimsargh has the highest level of crime?

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