Crime Statistics for Crawford, St Helens, St Helens, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Crawford in October 2024. There were a total of 13 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Burglary, followed by Drugs.

Crime Category	Incidents
Burglary	5
Drugs	4
Anti Social Behaviour	4
All Crime	13

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 Crawford. 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 Crawford

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Tanhouse (1.96 miles)	187
Newgate (1.96 miles)	104
Tontine (1.75 miles)	32
Rainford (1.96 miles)	28
Rainford Junction (1.86 miles)	25
Brownlow (1.39 miles)	15
Crawford	8
Crank (1.86 miles)	4
Higher End (1.39 miles)	4
Longshaw (1.24 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Crawford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tanhouse	56
Newgate	34
Tontine	13
Rainford	13
Rainford Junction	12
Brownlow	4
Higher End	2
Crank	1
Crawford	0
Longshaw	0

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

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 Crawford 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 Crawford compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Crawford and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Crawford have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Moorside.

#	Ward	Score
1	Moorside	90
2	Digmoor	80
3	Pemberton	79
4	Tanhouse	74
5	Birch Green	63
6	Winstanley	48
7	Orrell	45
8	Skelmersdale North	44
9	Skelmersdale South	43
10	Billinge and Seneley Green	39
11	Up Holland	27

Which road in Crawford has the highest level of crime?

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