Crime Statistics for Johnson’s Hillock, Chorley, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Johnson’s Hillock in August 2024. There were a total of 35 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 Johnson’s Hillock, 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 Crime14
Anti Social Behaviour7
Vehicle Crime5
Other Theft4
Other Crime3
Robbery1
Criminal Damage Arson1
All Crime35

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 Johnson’s Hillock. 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 Johnson’s Hillock

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Chorley (2.56 miles)364
Hartwood (1.39 miles)235
Pippin Street (1.86 miles)162
Brindle (1.86 miles)116
Jack Green (2.48 miles)64
Lower Copthurst57
Top o’th’ Lane (1.24 miles)56
Johnson’s Hillock35
Higher Wheelton (1.39 miles)11
Brinscall (1.86 miles)5

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Where are the most violent places near Johnson’s Hillock?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Chorley112
Pippin Street104
Hartwood68
Brindle39
Jack Green37
Lower Copthurst25
Top o’th’ Lane18
Johnson’s Hillock14
Higher Wheelton3
Brinscall1

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Johnson’s Hillock?

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 Johnson’s Hillock 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 Johnson’s Hillock compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Johnson’s Hillock and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Johnson’s Hillock have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Chorley East.

#WardScore
1Chorley East69
2Clayton-le-Woods North68
3Chorley South East63
4Chorley North East62
5Chorley North West41
6Pennine40
7Clayton-le-Woods West and Cuerden36
8Wheelton and Withnell22
9Astley and Buckshaw22
10Euxton North21
11Clayton-le-Woods and Whittle-le-Woods20

Which road in Johnson’s Hillock has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Johnson’s Hillock with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Argyll Avenue.

Last updated: August 2024
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