Crime Statistics for Broad Oak, St Helens, St Helens, 2025

Is Broad Oak rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 1256 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Broad Oak, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime560
Public Order120
Criminal Damage Arson108
Drugs104
Anti Social Behaviour104
Other Theft84
Shoplifting48
Burglary40
Other Crime40
Possession Of Weapons24
Vehicle Crime20
Robbery4
All Crime1256

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Broad Oak. 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 Broad Oak

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Broad Oak628
Haresfinch (1.75 miles)240
Moss Nook (0.62 miles)219
Moss Bank (1.75 miles)217
Ravenhead (1.96 miles)216
Blackbrook (0.88 miles)210
Parr (0.62 miles)164
Peasley Cross (1.39 miles)142
Earlestown (1.86 miles)82
Collins Green (1.39 miles)69

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Where are the most violent places near Broad Oak?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Broad Oak560
Parr153
Haresfinch111
Peasley Cross104
Moss Bank103
Moss Nook100
Blackbrook95
Ravenhead82
Earlestown33
Collins Green31

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

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 Broad Oak 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 Broad Oak compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Broad Oak and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Broad Oak is ranked #2.

#WardScore
1Town Centre88
2Parr83
3Sutton70
4Thatto Heath67
5West Park67
6Windle66
7Moss Bank58
8Burtonwood and Winwick58
9Blackbrook48
10Haydock39
11Billinge and Seneley Green39

Which road in Broad Oak has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2025
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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