Crime Statistics for Lane Heads, Fylde, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lane Heads in August 2024. There were a total of 46 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 Lane Heads, 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	32
Anti Social Behaviour	6
Possession Of Weapons	4
Public Order	4
All Crime	46

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 Lane Heads. 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 Lane Heads

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lane Heads	24
Ratten Row (1.39 miles)	22
Great Eccleston (0.88 miles)	11
Little Eccleston (1.39 miles)	10
Inskip Moss Side (1.24 miles)	6
Copp (0.62 miles)	5
Inskip (2.24 miles)	3
St Michael’s on Wyre (2.24 miles)	2
Esprick (2.63 miles)	1
Crossmoor (0.88 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Lane Heads?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lane Heads	32
Ratten Row	30
Little Eccleston	12
Great Eccleston	8
Inskip Moss Side	7
Copp	3
Inskip	2
St Michael’s on Wyre	1
Esprick	0
Crossmoor	0

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

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 Lane Heads 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 Lane Heads compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lane Heads and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Lane Heads is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Medlar-with-Wesham	45
2	Kirkham South	41
3	Kirkham North	35
4	Breck	32
5	Singleton and Greenhalgh	29
6	Hardhorn with High Cross	27
7	Brock with Catterall	19
8	Elswick and Little Eccleston	13
9	Hambleton & Stalmine	12
10	Great Eccleston	10
11	Ribby-with-Wrea	7

Which road in Lane Heads has the highest level of crime?

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