Crime Statistics for Blackbrook, St Helens, St Helens, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Blackbrook in September 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 Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Blackbrook, 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	114
Criminal Damage Arson	17
Public Order	14
Drugs	12
Anti Social Behaviour	7
Other Crime	6
Other Theft	6
Vehicle Crime	4
Burglary	3
Robbery	1
Shoplifting	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	187

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 Blackbrook. 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 Blackbrook

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Parr (1.39 miles)	296
Broad Oak (0.88 miles)	282
Moss Nook (1.39 miles)	271
Moss Bank (1.96 miles)	237
Haresfinch (1.96 miles)	237
Blackbrook	187
Old Boston (1.96 miles)	118
Earlestown (1.39 miles)	83
Collins Green (1.39 miles)	74
Laffak (1.75 miles)	71

Where are the most violent places near Blackbrook?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Parr	146
Moss Nook	131
Broad Oak	124
Blackbrook	114
Moss Bank	92
Haresfinch	92
Old Boston	47
Collins Green	45
Earlestown	40
Laffak	25

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

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 Blackbrook 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 Blackbrook compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Blackbrook and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Blackbrook is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Town Centre	88
2	Parr	83
3	Sutton	70
4	Earlestown	67
5	West Park	67
6	Windle	66
7	Moss Bank	58
8	Burtonwood and Winwick	58
9	Blackbrook	48
10	Haydock	39
11	Billinge and Seneley Green	39

Which road in Blackbrook has the highest level of crime?

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