Crime Statistics for Bold Heath, St Helens, St Helens, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bold Heath in September 2024. There were a total of 19 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime Category	Incidents
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Shoplifting	2
Other Crime	1
Violent Crime	1
Public Order	1
All Crime	19

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 Bold Heath. 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 Bold Heath

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Farnworth (1.75 miles)	715
Crow Wood (1.96 miles)	691
Barrow’s Green (1.39 miles)	508
Halton View (1.96 miles)	409
Appleton (2.24 miles)	341
Marshall’s Cross (2.24 miles)	107
Town End (2.55 miles)	100
Cronton (2.55 miles)	100
Bold Heath	19
Rainhill Stoops (1.96 miles)	14

Where are the most violent places near Bold Heath?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Crow Wood	211
Barrow’s Green	180
Farnworth	156
Appleton	141
Halton View	107
Marshall’s Cross	44
Town End	36
Cronton	36
Bold Heath	1
Rainhill Stoops	1

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

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 Bold Heath 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 Bold Heath compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Kingsway	86
2	Appleton	85
3	Bold	74
4	Sutton	70
5	Hough Green	69
6	Chapelford and Old Hall	48
7	Halton View	48
8	Rainhill	29
9	Birchfield	29
10	Farnworth	26
11	Great Sankey North and Whittle Hall	19

Which road in Bold Heath has the highest level of crime?

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