Crime Statistics for Moss Bank, St Helens, St Helens, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Moss Bank in October 2024. There were a total of 260 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Moss Bank, 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	89
Anti Social Behaviour	43
Public Order	30
Drugs	26
Criminal Damage Arson	24
Other Theft	16
Vehicle Crime	7
Other Crime	7
Shoplifting	6
Burglary	5
Possession Of Weapons	3
Bicycle Theft	2
Theft From The Person	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	260

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 Moss Bank. 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 Moss Bank

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ravenhead (1.96 miles)	356
Broad Oak (1.75 miles)	267
Moss Bank	260
Haresfinch	260
Blackbrook (1.96 miles)	202
Grange Park (2.24 miles)	142
Toll Bar (2.24 miles)	142
Laffak (0.88 miles)	68
Eccleston (2.24 miles)	60
Crank (1.39 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Moss Bank?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Broad Oak	231
Ravenhead	151
Blackbrook	104
Moss Bank	89
Haresfinch	89
Grange Park	61
Toll Bar	61
Eccleston	28
Laffak	20
Crank	1

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

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 Moss Bank 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 Moss Bank compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Moss Bank and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Moss Bank is ranked #7.

#	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	Blackbrook	48
9	Haydock	39
10	Billinge and Seneley Green	39
11	Eccleston	33

Which road in Moss Bank has the highest level of crime?

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