Crime Statistics for Haighton Top, Preston, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Haighton Top in August 2024. There were a total of 36 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	13
Violent Crime	5
Drugs	3
Burglary	3
Other Theft	2
Shoplifting	2
Public Order	2
Bicycle Theft	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Other Crime	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
All Crime	36

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 Haighton Top. 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 Haighton Top

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Holme Slack (1.86 miles)	1128
Fulwood (1.96 miles)	786
Brookfield (1.96 miles)	518
Red Scar (2.24 miles)	234
Haighton Green (0.62 miles)	58
Broughton (1.96 miles)	44
Haighton Top	36
Grimsargh (1.86 miles)	30
Cumeragh Village (1.39 miles)	14
Goosnargh (1.24 miles)	8

Where are the most violent places near Haighton Top?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Holme Slack	307
Fulwood	219
Brookfield	152
Red Scar	74
Broughton	18
Haighton Green	12
Grimsargh	12
Cumeragh Village	6
Haighton Top	5
Goosnargh	1

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

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 Haighton Top 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 Haighton Top compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Haighton Top and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Haighton Top have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is St Matthew's.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Matthew's	97
2	Brookfield	84
3	Plungington	82
4	Fishwick & Frenchwood	81
5	Deepdale	80
6	Ribbleton	79
7	Cadley	65
8	Greyfriars	39
9	Preston Rural East	38
10	Garrison	31
11	Garrison	23

Which road in Haighton Top has the highest level of crime?

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