Crime Statistics for Red Scar, Preston, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Red Scar in October 2024. There were a total of 120 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 Red Scar, 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	37
Anti Social Behaviour	33
Criminal Damage Arson	15
Other Theft	11
Other Crime	6
Burglary	5
Public Order	5
Drugs	4
Vehicle Crime	3
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	120

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ribbleton (1.75 miles)	865
Holme Slack (1.96 miles)	628
Brookfield (1.39 miles)	495
Grange (0.88 miles)	270
Red Scar	120
Grimsargh (1.24 miles)	31
Haighton Top (2.24 miles)	31
Turner Green (2.24 miles)	16
Haighton Green (1.75 miles)	15
Samlesbury (1.39 miles)	8

Where are the most violent places near Red Scar?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ribbleton	205
Holme Slack	172
Brookfield	131
Grange	76
Red Scar	37
Turner Green	16
Haighton Top	11
Haighton Green	8
Grimsargh	4
Samlesbury	1

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Red Scar?

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 Red Scar 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 Red Scar compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	St Matthew's	97
2	Brookfield	84
3	Plungington	82
4	Fishwick & Frenchwood	81
5	Deepdale	80
6	Ribbleton	79
7	Walton-le-Dale East	39
8	Preston Rural East	38
9	Samlesbury & Walton	36
10	Garrison	31
11	Garrison	23

Which road in Red Scar has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Red Scar with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Rough Hey Road.