Crime Statistics for Town Centre, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Town Centre in September 2024. There were a total of 205 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	64
Violent Crime	62
Criminal Damage Arson	17
Burglary	13
Vehicle Crime	11
Shoplifting	9
Other Theft	8
Other Crime	8
Drugs	4
Public Order	4
Bicycle Theft	3
Possession Of Weapons	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	205

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 Town Centre. 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 Town Centre

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Tanhouse (0.88 miles)	214
Town Centre	205
Pennylands (0.62 miles)	203
Ashurst (0.62 miles)	199
Birch Green (0.62 miles)	197
Newgate (1.96 miles)	132
Chapel House (0.62 miles)	113
Dalton (1.39 miles)	87
Up Holland (1.96 miles)	87
Blaguegate (1.86 miles)	22

Where are the most violent places near Town Centre?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tanhouse	89
Town Centre	62
Birch Green	62
Pennylands	56
Ashurst	56
Newgate	56
Chapel House	31
Up Holland	30
Dalton	28
Blaguegate	8

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

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 Town Centre 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 Town Centre compare to surrounding wards?

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

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

Which road in Town Centre has the highest level of crime?

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