Crime Statistics for Hoghton, Chorley, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hoghton in October 2024. There were a total of 10 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 Hoghton, 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 Crime3
Anti Social Behaviour3
Other Theft2
Burglary1
Criminal Damage Arson1
All Crime10

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. 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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Brindle (1.76 miles)69
Jack Green (1.39 miles)56
Pippin Street (1.76 miles)53
Top o’th’ Lane (2.24 miles)36
Gregson Lane (1.24 miles)29
Pleasington (1.86 miles)12
Hoghton10
Hoghton Bottoms (0.88 miles)8
Feniscowles (1.96 miles)8
Samlesbury Bottoms (1.24 miles)7

3.33%
of Coupe Green & Gregson Lane residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Hoghton?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Brindle23
Jack Green21
Pippin Street16
Top o’th’ Lane13
Gregson Lane13
Pleasington4
Hoghton3
Feniscowles3
Samlesbury Bottoms2
Hoghton Bottoms1

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

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 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 compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Mill Hill & Moorgate87
2Clayton-le-Woods North68
3Bamber Bridge West53
4Bamber Bridge East49
5Livesey with Pleasington47
6Brindle and Hoghton43
7Walton-le-Dale East39
8Samlesbury & Walton36
9Wheelton and Withnell22
10Clayton-le-Woods and Whittle-le-Woods20
11Coupe Green & Gregson Lane12

Which road in Hoghton has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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