Crime Statistics for Hoghton Bottoms, Chorley, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hoghton Bottoms in October 2024. There were a total of 8 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Other Theft.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Other Theft	2
Violent Crime	1
Burglary	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
All Crime	8

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 Hoghton Bottoms. 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 Hoghton Bottoms

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Feniscliffe (1.96 miles)	64
Jack Green (2.24 miles)	56
Cherry Tree (2.24 miles)	31
Gregson Lane (1.96 miles)	29
Turner Green (1.96 miles)	16
Pleasington (1.39 miles)	12
Hoghton (0.88 miles)	10
Hoghton Bottoms	8
Feniscowles (1.75 miles)	8
Samlesbury Bottoms (0.88 miles)	7

Where are the most violent places near Hoghton Bottoms?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Feniscliffe	24
Jack Green	21
Turner Green	16
Gregson Lane	13
Cherry Tree	11
Pleasington	4
Hoghton	3
Feniscowles	3
Samlesbury Bottoms	2
Hoghton Bottoms	1

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Hoghton Bottoms?

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 Hoghton Bottoms 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 Hoghton Bottoms compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hoghton Bottoms and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Hoghton Bottoms have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Mill Hill & Moorgate.

#	Ward	Score
1	Mill Hill & Moorgate	87
2	Wensley Fold	69
3	Clayton-le-Woods North	68
4	Billinge & Beardwood	50
5	Bamber Bridge East	49
6	Livesey with Pleasington	47
7	Brindle and Hoghton	43
8	Walton-le-Dale East	39
9	Samlesbury & Walton	36
10	Wheelton and Withnell	22
11	Coupe Green & Gregson Lane	12

Which road in Hoghton Bottoms has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Hoghton Bottoms with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Cottage Gardens.