Crime Statistics for Lower Penwortham, South Ribble, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lower Penwortham in September 2024. There were a total of 329 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	100
Violent Crime	67
Shoplifting	38
Criminal Damage Arson	27
Other Theft	19
Other Crime	16
Burglary	15
Public Order	14
Vehicle Crime	11
Robbery	8
Drugs	6
Possession Of Weapons	3
Bicycle Theft	3
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	329

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 Lower Penwortham. 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 Lower Penwortham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Cadley (1.96 miles)	535
Fulwood (1.96 miles)	475
Frenchwood (0.62 miles)	364
Lower Penwortham	329
Fishwick (1.96 miles)	255
Walton-le-Dale (1.39 miles)	246
Larches (2.24 miles)	128
Lostock Hall (1.96 miles)	82
Higher Penwortham (1.24 miles)	54
Tardy Gate (1.86 miles)	53

Where are the most violent places near Lower Penwortham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Fulwood	311
Cadley	190
Walton-le-Dale	152
Frenchwood	103
Fishwick	82
Lower Penwortham	67
Larches	30
Lostock Hall	25
Tardy Gate	17
Higher Penwortham	15

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Lower Penwortham?

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 Lower Penwortham 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 Lower Penwortham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lower Penwortham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Lower Penwortham is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Matthew's	97
2	City Centre	82
3	Fishwick & Frenchwood	81
4	Deepdale	80
5	Ashton	74
6	Middleforth	64
7	Charnock	50
8	Lostock Hall	34
9	Broad Oak	32
10	Howick & Priory	32
11	Walton-le-Dale West	24

Which road in Lower Penwortham has the highest level of crime?

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