Crime Statistics for Walton Summit, South Ribble, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Walton Summit in October 2024. There were a total of 722 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	252
Violent Crime	176
Shoplifting	112
Public Order	48
Criminal Damage Arson	48
Other Theft	32
Drugs	12
Burglary	12
Possession Of Weapons	12
Vehicle Crime	12
Other Crime	6
All Crime	722

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 Walton Summit. 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 Walton Summit

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Walton Summit	366
Bamber Bridge (0.88 miles)	348
Walton-le-Dale (1.75 miles)	274
Higher Walton (1.24 miles)	193
Cuerden Green (1.39 miles)	138
Brindle (1.39 miles)	69
Jack Green (1.24 miles)	56
Pippin Street (1.39 miles)	53
Top o’th’ Lane (1.75 miles)	36
Gregson Lane (1.39 miles)	29

Where are the most violent places near Walton Summit?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Walton Summit	176
Walton-le-Dale	176
Bamber Bridge	94
Higher Walton	73
Cuerden Green	45
Brindle	23
Jack Green	21
Pippin Street	16
Top o’th’ Lane	13
Gregson Lane	13

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

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 Walton Summit 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 Walton Summit compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Walton Summit and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Walton Summit have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Coupe Green & Gregson Lane.

#	Ward	Score
1	Clayton-le-Woods North	68
2	Bamber Bridge West	53
3	Charnock	50
4	Bamber Bridge East	49
5	Farington East	41
6	Walton-le-Dale East	39
7	Clayton-le-Woods West and Cuerden	36
8	Lostock Hall	34
9	Walton-le-Dale West	24
10	Clayton-le-Woods and Whittle-le-Woods	20
11	Coupe Green & Gregson Lane	12

Which road in Walton Summit has the highest level of crime?

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