Crime Statistics for Little Marton, Marton Bank, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Little Marton in August 2024. There were a total of 863 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 Little Marton, 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 Crime305
Anti Social Behaviour264
Shoplifting60
Other Theft48
Criminal Damage Arson48
Vehicle Crime36
Public Order28
Possession Of Weapons20
Burglary20
Drugs12
Theft From The Person8
Robbery8
Other Crime6
All Crime863

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 Little Marton. 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 Little Marton

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Layton (1.75 miles)1032
Little Marton436
Great Marton (0.62 miles)329
Common Edge (1.75 miles)266
Marton Moss Side (0.88 miles)238
Peel Hill (0.88 miles)222
Staining (1.24 miles)108
Main Dyke (1.06 miles)104
Great Marton Moss (1.96 miles)64
Peel (1.96 miles)10

6.29%
of Clifton (Blackpool) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Little Marton?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Layton627
Little Marton305
Great Marton101
Common Edge96
Peel Hill93
Marton Moss Side75
Main Dyke53
Staining34
Great Marton Moss22
Peel4

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

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 Little Marton 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 Little Marton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Little Marton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Little Marton is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1Waterloo93
2Victoria90
3Tyldesley86
4Marton84
5Hawes Side76
6Clifton65
7Highfield61
8Stanley34
9Warton and Westby31
10Staining and Weeton25
11St Leonards18

Which road in Little Marton has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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