Crime Statistics for Grimsargh, Preston, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Grimsargh in September 2024. There were a total of 17 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Other Theft, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Other Theft	6
Violent Crime	4
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Vehicle Crime	1
Public Order	1
Shoplifting	1
All Crime	17

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 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
Grange (1.96 miles)	524
Brookfield (2.24 miles)	518
Red Scar (1.24 miles)	116
Haighton Top (1.86 miles)	91
Longridge (2.24 miles)	50
Haighton Green (1.24 miles)	43
Grimsargh	17
Cumeragh Village (1.75 miles)	14
Samlesbury (2.56 miles)	12
Goosnargh (2.24 miles)	7

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	152
Grange	148
Haighton Top	36
Red Scar	30
Haighton Green	19
Longridge	17
Cumeragh Village	7
Samlesbury	6
Grimsargh	4
Goosnargh	2

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.