Crime Statistics for Ingol, Preston, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ingol in August 2024. There were a total of 498 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 Ingol, 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	129
Anti Social Behaviour	112
Vehicle Crime	65
Burglary	46
Criminal Damage Arson	34
Other Theft	25
Shoplifting	23
Public Order	21
Possession Of Weapons	14
Other Crime	11
Drugs	8
Bicycle Theft	5
Robbery	5
All Crime	498

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 Ingol. 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 Ingol

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Fulwood (1.86 miles)	786
Cadley (0.62 miles)	535
Lower Penwortham (2.24 miles)	364
Ingol	267
Larches (0.88 miles)	263
Tanterton (0.62 miles)	241
Higher Bartle (1.39 miles)	148
Lea (1.39 miles)	90
Lower Bartle (1.75 miles)	73
Higher Penwortham (1.86 miles)	59

Where are the most violent places near Ingol?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Fulwood	219
Cadley	190
Ingol	129
Lower Penwortham	99
Higher Bartle	81
Larches	69
Tanterton	67
Lea	23
Lower Bartle	18
Higher Penwortham	14

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

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 Ingol 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 Ingol compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ingol and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Ingol is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Matthew's	97
2	Plungington	82
3	City Centre	82
4	Deepdale	80
5	Lea & Larches	76
6	Ashton	74
7	Ingol & Cottam	67
8	Cadley	65
9	Greyfriars	39
10	Howick & Priory	32
11	Garrison	31

Which road in Ingol has the highest level of crime?

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