Crime Statistics for Downall Green, St Helens, St Helens, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Downall Green in September 2024. There were a total of 11 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Downall Green, 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 Crime7
Vehicle Crime2
Drugs1
Criminal Damage Arson1
All Crime11

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 Downall Green. 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 Downall Green

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Garswood (0.62 miles)32
Billinge (1.24 miles)26
Ashton-in-Makerfield (1.39 miles)17
Tithe Barn Hillock (0.62 miles)16
Bryn (0.62 miles)11
Downall Green11
Town Green (1.96 miles)9
Land Gate (1.39 miles)2
Highfield (1.86 miles)0
New Houses (1.24 miles)0

3.12%
of Bryn (Wigan) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Downall Green?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Garswood27
Billinge12
Tithe Barn Hillock7
Bryn7
Downall Green7
Ashton-in-Makerfield5
Town Green2
Land Gate2
Highfield0
New Houses0

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

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 Downall Green 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 Downall Green compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Downall Green and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Downall Green is ranked #4.

#WardScore
1Parr83
2Pemberton79
3Moss Bank58
4Bryn49
5Blackbrook48
6Winstanley48
7Orrell45
8Ashton45
9Haydock39
10Billinge and Seneley Green39
11Up Holland27

Which road in Downall Green has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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