Crime Statistics for Lea Town, Preston, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lea Town in August 2024. There were a total of 7 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour3
Violent Crime3
Shoplifting1
All Crime7

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 Lea Town. 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 Lea Town

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Ingol (2.48 miles)267
Larches (1.96 miles)263
Higher Bartle (2.24 miles)148
Lea (1.39 miles)90
Lower Bartle (1.75 miles)73
Dowbridge (2.48 miles)71
Bolton Houses (2.24 miles)23
Lea Town7
Catforth (2.48 miles)3
Blackleach (1.86 miles)2

3.34%
of Newton and Treales residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Lea Town?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Ingol129
Higher Bartle81
Larches69
Lea23
Dowbridge22
Lower Bartle18
Bolton Houses8
Lea Town3
Catforth1
Blackleach0

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

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 Lea Town 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 Lea Town compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Lea & Larches76
2Ashton74
3Ingol & Cottam67
4Cadley65
5Medlar-with-Wesham45
6Kirkham South41
7Kirkham North35
8Howick & Priory32
9Freckleton East27
10Freckleton West23
11Newton and Treales16

Which road in Lea Town has the highest level of crime?

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

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