Crime Statistics for Higher Heysham, Lancaster, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Higher Heysham in August 2024. There were a total of 53 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 Higher 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime23
Anti Social Behaviour17
Criminal Damage Arson3
Other Theft3
Public Order2
Burglary2
Other Crime1
Drugs1
Vehicle Crime1
All Crime53

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 Higher 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 Higher Heysham

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Morecambe (1.96 miles)420
Torrisholme (3.51 miles)389
Bare (3.51 miles)308
Lower Heysham (0.62 miles)148
Abraham Heights (3.16 miles)105
Heysham (0.62 miles)80
Higher Heysham53
Aldcliffe (3.1 miles)15
Heaton (1.86 miles)1
Stodday (3.34 miles)0

3.61%
of Overton (Lancaster) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Higher Heysham?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Morecambe264
Torrisholme113
Bare106
Lower Heysham53
Heysham30
Abraham Heights27
Higher Heysham23
Aldcliffe5
Heaton1
Stodday0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Higher 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 Higher 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 Higher Heysham compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Heysham North87
2Harbour87
3Poulton74
4Heysham Central66
5Westgate63
6Heysham South59
7Marsh57
8Bare45
9Torrisholme30
10Ellel16

Which road in Higher Heysham has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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