Crime Statistics for Samlesbury, South Ribble, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Samlesbury in August 2024. There were a total of 11 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Samlesbury, 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 Crime3
Criminal Damage Arson2
Public Order2
Burglary2
Anti Social Behaviour1
Drugs1
All Crime11

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 Samlesbury. 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 Samlesbury

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Grange (1.39 miles)556
Brookfield (1.96 miles)538
Ribbleton (1.86 miles)457
Fishwick (1.96 miles)268
Red Scar (1.39 miles)234
Higher Walton (2.24 miles)141
Gregson Lane (2.48 miles)25
Samlesbury8
Turner Green (1.24 miles)6
Samlesbury Bottoms (1.75 miles)3

13.54%
of Ribbleton residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Samlesbury?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Grange160
Brookfield138
Ribbleton126
Red Scar74
Fishwick68
Higher Walton41
Gregson Lane11
Turner Green4
Samlesbury3
Samlesbury Bottoms1

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

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 Samlesbury 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 Samlesbury compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Samlesbury and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Samlesbury is ranked #5.

#WardScore
1St Matthew's97
2Brookfield84
3Fishwick & Frenchwood81
4Deepdale80
5Ribbleton79
6Bamber Bridge West53
7Bamber Bridge East49
8Walton-le-Dale East39
9Samlesbury & Walton36
10Garrison23
11Coupe Green & Gregson Lane12

Which road in Samlesbury has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Samlesbury 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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