Crime Statistics for Peasley Cross, St Helens, St Helens, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Peasley Cross in September 2024. There were a total of 337 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Peasley Cross, 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	109
Other Theft	40
Public Order	37
Drugs	30
Criminal Damage Arson	24
Theft From The Person	18
Vehicle Crime	18
Anti Social Behaviour	18
Shoplifting	13
Other Crime	9
Possession Of Weapons	9
Burglary	8
Bicycle Theft	4
All Crime	337

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 Peasley Cross. 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 Peasley Cross

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Parr (0.88 miles)	296
Thatto Heath (1.24 miles)	293
Broad Oak (1.39 miles)	282
Ravenhead (1.39 miles)	272
Moss Nook (0.88 miles)	271
Peasley Cross	252
Lea Green (1.39 miles)	184
Grange Park (1.96 miles)	144
Marshall’s Cross (0.88 miles)	136
Brown Edge (1.24 miles)	113

Where are the most violent places near Peasley Cross?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Parr	146
Moss Nook	131
Thatto Heath	127
Broad Oak	124
Peasley Cross	109
Ravenhead	96
Brown Edge	96
Lea Green	81
Marshall’s Cross	53
Grange Park	51

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

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 Peasley Cross 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 Peasley Cross compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Town Centre	88
2	Parr	83
3	Bold	74
4	Sutton	70
5	Thatto Heath	67
6	West Park	67
7	Windle	66
8	Moss Bank	58
9	Eccleston	33
10	Rainhill	29
11	Farnworth	26

Which road in Peasley Cross has the highest level of crime?

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