Crime Statistics for Hest Bank, Lancaster, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hest Bank 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	10
Violent Crime	9
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Burglary	4
Other Crime	2
Other Theft	2
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 Hest Bank. 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 Hest Bank

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Torrisholme (1.75 miles)	211
Bare (1.75 miles)	211
Bolton Town End (0.88 miles)	48
Crag Bank (2.78 miles)	44
Carnforth (2.78 miles)	44
Hest Bank	30
Halton (2.24 miles)	15
Bolton-le-Sands (1.39 miles)	11
Halton Green (2.56 miles)	6
Nether Kellet (2.24 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Hest Bank?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Torrisholme	52
Bare	52
Bolton Town End	28
Crag Bank	18
Carnforth	18
Hest Bank	9
Bolton-le-Sands	3
Nether Kellet	3
Halton	2
Halton Green	2

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

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 Hest Bank 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 Hest Bank compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hest Bank and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Hest Bank have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Skerton East.

#	Ward	Score
1	Skerton East	91
2	Bulk	85
3	Poulton	74
4	Skerton West	72
5	Westgate	63
6	Castle	60
7	Marsh	57
8	Bare	45
9	Torrisholme	30
10	Halton-with-Aughton	16
11	Bolton & Slyne	15

Which road in Hest Bank has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Hest Bank with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Mount Pleasant Lane.