Crime Statistics for Tanhouse, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Tanhouse in October 2024. There were a total of 187 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	58
Violent Crime	56
Criminal Damage Arson	15
Shoplifting	12
Public Order	11
Burglary	8
Vehicle Crime	8
Other Theft	7
Drugs	7
Other Crime	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	187

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 Tanhouse. 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 Tanhouse

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Birch Green (0.62 miles)	323
Town Centre (0.88 miles)	297
Ashurst (1.39 miles)	189
Tanhouse	187
Newgate (1.24 miles)	104
Up Holland (1.24 miles)	104
Chapel House (1.39 miles)	98
Pennylands (1.39 miles)	98
Dalton (1.86 miles)	96
Bank Top (1.75 miles)	46

Where are the most violent places near Tanhouse?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Birch Green	120
Town Centre	116
Ashurst	63
Tanhouse	56
Dalton	35
Newgate	34
Up Holland	34
Chapel House	30
Pennylands	30
Bank Top	18

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

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 Tanhouse 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 Tanhouse compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Moorside	90
2	Digmoor	80
3	Pemberton	79
4	Tanhouse	74
5	Birch Green	63
6	Orrell	45
7	Skelmersdale North	44
8	Skelmersdale South	43
9	Ashurst	33
10	Up Holland	27
11	Wrightington	13

Which road in Tanhouse has the highest level of crime?

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