Crime Statistics for Little Poulton, Wyre, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Little Poulton in September 2024. There were a total of 150 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 Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	36
Violent Crime	34
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Vehicle Crime	14
Shoplifting	14
Burglary	10
Other Crime	8
Other Theft	8
Bicycle Theft	4
Public Order	4
Drugs	2
All Crime	150

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Little Poulton. 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 Poulton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hoohill (2.24 miles)	1125
Warbreck (1.96 miles)	1016
Little Carleton (1.39 miles)	551
Carleton (1.24 miles)	219
Little Poulton	146
Staining (1.96 miles)	113
Hardhorn (0.62 miles)	102
Breedy Butts (0.88 miles)	85
Little Thornton (1.24 miles)	64
Little Singleton (1.24 miles)	40

Where are the most violent places near Little Poulton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Warbreck	432
Hoohill	389
Little Carleton	233
Carleton	81
Staining	38
Little Poulton	34
Hardhorn	29
Breedy Butts	27
Little Thornton	15
Little Singleton	13

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

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 Poulton 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 Poulton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Park	75
2	Ingthorpe	58
3	Greenlands	52
4	Bourne	34
5	Breck	32
6	Tithebarn	31
7	Singleton and Greenhalgh	29
8	Hardhorn with High Cross	27
9	Staining and Weeton	25
10	Carleton	16
11	Stanah	13

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

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