Crime Statistics for Higher Wheelton, Chorley, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Higher Wheelton in August 2024. There were a total of 11 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Burglary.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Higher Wheelton, 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	3
Burglary	2
Other Theft	2
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	11

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 Wheelton. 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 Wheelton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pippin Street (1.75 miles)	162
Brindle (1.75 miles)	116
Jack Green (2.24 miles)	64
Lower Copthurst (1.39 miles)	57
Top o’th’ Lane (1.39 miles)	56
Johnson’s Hillock (1.39 miles)	35
Higher Wheelton	11
Abbey Village (1.86 miles)	5
Brinscall (0.88 miles)	5
Hoghton (2.48 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Higher Wheelton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Pippin Street	104
Brindle	39
Jack Green	37
Lower Copthurst	25
Top o’th’ Lane	18
Johnson’s Hillock	14
Higher Wheelton	3
Abbey Village	1
Brinscall	1
Hoghton	1

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

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 Wheelton 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 Wheelton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Higher Wheelton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Higher Wheelton is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Chorley East	69
2	Clayton-le-Woods North	68
3	Chorley South East	63
4	Chorley North East	62
5	Brindle and Hoghton	43
6	Chorley North West	41
7	Pennine	40
8	Wheelton and Withnell	22
9	Astley and Buckshaw	22
10	Clayton-le-Woods and Whittle-le-Woods	20
11	Coupe Green & Gregson Lane	12

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

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