Crime Statistics for Higher Penwortham, South Ribble, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Higher Penwortham in October 2024. There were a total of 39 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 Penwortham, 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	11
Anti Social Behaviour	10
Other Theft	4
Burglary	3
Vehicle Crime	3
Public Order	3
Shoplifting	2
Other Crime	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	39

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 Higher Penwortham. 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 Penwortham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lower Penwortham (1.24 miles)	650
Frenchwood (1.86 miles)	455
Cadley (1.96 miles)	357
Ingol (1.86 miles)	290
Larches (1.39 miles)	119
Lea (1.75 miles)	63
Tardy Gate (2.24 miles)	39
Higher Penwortham	39
New Longton (1.96 miles)	35
Bottom of Hutton (1.96 miles)	15

Where are the most violent places near Higher Penwortham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lower Penwortham	308
Cadley	107
Frenchwood	96
Ingol	84
Larches	25
Lea	17
Tardy Gate	17
Higher Penwortham	11
New Longton	7
Bottom of Hutton	4

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

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 Penwortham 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 Penwortham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Higher Penwortham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Higher Penwortham is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	City Centre	82
2	Lea & Larches	76
3	Ashton	74
4	Ingol & Cottam	67
5	Cadley	65
6	Middleforth	64
7	Charnock	50
8	Broad Oak	32
9	Howick & Priory	32
10	New Longton & Hutton East	24
11	Longton & Hutton West	8

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

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