Crime Statistics for Top o’th’ Lane, Chorley, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Top o’th’ Lane in August 2024. There were a total of 56 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	20
Violent Crime	18
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Other Theft	4
Other Crime	3
Public Order	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Burglary	1
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	56

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 Top o’th’ Lane. 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 Top o’th’ Lane

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Walton Summit (1.75 miles)	202
Pippin Street (0.62 miles)	162
Brindle (0.62 miles)	116
Jack Green (1.24 miles)	64
Lower Copthurst (1.24 miles)	57
Top o’th’ Lane	56
Johnson’s Hillock (1.24 miles)	35
Gregson Lane (1.86 miles)	25
Higher Wheelton (1.39 miles)	11
Brinscall (2.24 miles)	5

Where are the most violent places near Top o’th’ Lane?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Pippin Street	104
Walton Summit	58
Brindle	39
Jack Green	37
Lower Copthurst	25
Top o’th’ Lane	18
Johnson’s Hillock	14
Gregson Lane	11
Higher Wheelton	3
Brinscall	1

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Top o’th’ Lane?

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 Top o’th’ Lane 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 Top o’th’ Lane compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Clayton-le-Woods North	68
2	Bamber Bridge West	53
3	Bamber Bridge East	49
4	Farington East	41
5	Pennine	40
6	Clayton-le-Woods West and Cuerden	36
7	Wheelton and Withnell	22
8	Astley and Buckshaw	22
9	Euxton North	21
10	Clayton-le-Woods and Whittle-le-Woods	20
11	Coupe Green & Gregson Lane	12

Which road in Top o’th’ Lane has the highest level of crime?

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