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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Higher Walton in October 2024. There were a total of 201 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 Walton, 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	73
Anti Social Behaviour	64
Public Order	16
Shoplifting	14
Criminal Damage Arson	13
Vehicle Crime	8
Burglary	4
Other Theft	4
Other Crime	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	201

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 Walton. 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 Walton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ribbleton (1.96 miles)	865
Frenchwood (1.96 miles)	455
Walton Summit (1.24 miles)	366
Bamber Bridge (0.88 miles)	348
Fishwick (1.39 miles)	307
Walton-le-Dale (1.24 miles)	274
Higher Walton	193
Lostock Hall (2.24 miles)	64
Jack Green (1.75 miles)	56
Gregson Lane (1.39 miles)	29

Where are the most violent places near Higher Walton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ribbleton	205
Walton Summit	176
Walton-le-Dale	176
Frenchwood	96
Bamber Bridge	94
Fishwick	77
Higher Walton	73
Jack Green	21
Lostock Hall	17
Gregson Lane	13

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

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 Walton 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 Walton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Fishwick & Frenchwood	81
2	Ribbleton	79
3	Clayton-le-Woods North	68
4	Bamber Bridge West	53
5	Charnock	50
6	Bamber Bridge East	49
7	Farington East	41
8	Walton-le-Dale East	39
9	Lostock Hall	34
10	Walton-le-Dale West	24
11	Coupe Green & Gregson Lane	12

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

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