Crime Statistics for Holme Slack, Preston, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Holme Slack in September 2024. There were a total of 581 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 Holme Slack, 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	190
Anti Social Behaviour	160
Criminal Damage Arson	47
Vehicle Crime	38
Public Order	36
Other Theft	31
Shoplifting	18
Burglary	17
Other Crime	15
Robbery	11
Drugs	8
Bicycle Theft	5
Theft From The Person	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	581

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Holme Slack. 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 Holme Slack

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ribbleton (0.88 miles)	625
Holme Slack	581
Cadley (1.86 miles)	535
Grange (1.24 miles)	524
Brookfield (0.62 miles)	518
Fulwood (0.62 miles)	475
Frenchwood (1.96 miles)	364
Fishwick (1.39 miles)	255
Red Scar (1.96 miles)	116
Haighton Top (1.86 miles)	91

Where are the most violent places near Holme Slack?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Fulwood	311
Ribbleton	235
Holme Slack	190
Cadley	190
Brookfield	152
Grange	148
Frenchwood	103
Fishwick	82
Haighton Top	36
Red Scar	30

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

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 Holme Slack 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 Holme Slack compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Holme Slack and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Holme Slack is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Matthew's	97
2	Brookfield	84
3	Plungington	82
4	City Centre	82
5	Fishwick & Frenchwood	81
6	Deepdale	80
7	Ribbleton	79
8	Cadley	65
9	Greyfriars	39
10	Garrison	31
11	Garrison	23

Which road in Holme Slack has the highest level of crime?

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