Crime Statistics for Heysham, Lancaster, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Heysham in August 2024. There were a total of 80 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Heysham, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	30
Anti Social Behaviour	25
Criminal Damage Arson	9
Other Theft	4
Burglary	4
Vehicle Crime	2
Public Order	2
Drugs	1
Other Crime	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
Shoplifting	1
All Crime	80

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 Heysham. 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 Heysham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Morecambe (1.39 miles)	420
Torrisholme (3.1 miles)	389
Bare (3.1 miles)	308
Lower Heysham	148
Abraham Heights (3.1 miles)	105
Heysham	80
Higher Heysham (0.62 miles)	53
Aldcliffe (3.16 miles)	15
Heaton (1.96 miles)	1
Stodday (3.62 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Heysham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Morecambe	264
Torrisholme	113
Bare	106
Lower Heysham	53
Heysham	30
Abraham Heights	27
Higher Heysham	23
Aldcliffe	5
Heaton	1
Stodday	0

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

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 Heysham 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 Heysham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Heysham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Heysham is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Heysham North	87
2	Harbour	87
3	Poulton	74
4	Heysham Central	66
5	Westgate	63
6	Heysham South	59
7	Marsh	57
8	Bare	45
9	Scotforth West	43
10	Torrisholme	30

Which road in Heysham has the highest level of crime?

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