Crime Statistics for Broad Oak, St Helens, St Helens, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Broad Oak in October 2024. There were a total of 484 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	231
Shoplifting	63
Public Order	45
Anti Social Behaviour	38
Criminal Damage Arson	28
Vehicle Crime	23
Other Crime	15
Other Theft	14
Drugs	12
Burglary	8
Theft From The Person	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	484

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 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.

Location	Crime Incidents
Ravenhead (1.96 miles)	356
Moss Nook (0.62 miles)	281
Parr (0.62 miles)	281
Broad Oak	267
Moss Bank (1.75 miles)	260
Haresfinch (1.75 miles)	260
Peasley Cross (1.39 miles)	208
Blackbrook (0.88 miles)	202
Earlestown (1.86 miles)	138
Collins Green (1.39 miles)	74

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.

Location	Violent Incidents
Broad Oak	231
Ravenhead	151
Moss Nook	121
Parr	121
Blackbrook	104
Peasley Cross	93
Moss Bank	89
Haresfinch	89
Earlestown	48
Collins Green	35

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.

#	Ward	Score
1	Town Centre	88
2	Parr	83
3	Sutton	70
4	Thatto Heath	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 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.