Crime Statistics for Heysham, Lancaster, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Heysham in September 2024. There were a total of 82 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 CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour36
Violent Crime18
Criminal Damage Arson7
Other Crime6
Public Order5
Shoplifting4
Other Theft3
Vehicle Crime2
Burglary1
All Crime82

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 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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Bare (3.1 miles)308
Morecambe (1.39 miles)240
Torrisholme (3.1 miles)179
Abraham Heights (3.1 miles)105
Lower Heysham82
Heysham82
Higher Heysham (0.62 miles)49
Aldcliffe (3.16 miles)15
Heaton (1.96 miles)1
Stodday (3.62 miles)0

5.06%
of Heysham South residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Bare106
Morecambe73
Torrisholme71
Abraham Heights27
Lower Heysham18
Heysham18
Higher Heysham10
Aldcliffe5
Heaton0
Stodday0

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.

#WardScore
1Heysham North87
2Harbour87
3Poulton74
4Heysham Central66
5Westgate63
6Heysham South59
7Marsh57
8Bare45
9Scotforth West43
10Torrisholme30

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.

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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