Crime Statistics for Longridge, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Longridge in October 2024. There were a total of 8 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Violent Crime	2
Burglary	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	8

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 Longridge. 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 Longridge

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Penkridge (1.39 miles)	73
Boscomoor (1.39 miles)	38
Pillaton (2.24 miles)	9
Longridge	7
Acton Trussell (2.24 miles)	2
Bickford (1.96 miles)	1
Mitton (1.86 miles)	1
Dunston (1.39 miles)	0
Dunston Heath (1.24 miles)	0
Coppenhall (2.56 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Longridge?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Penkridge	27
Boscomoor	14
Pillaton	7
Longridge	2
Acton Trussell	2
Bickford	0
Mitton	0
Dunston	0
Dunston Heath	0
Coppenhall	0

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

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 Longridge 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 Longridge compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Highfields & Western Downs	59
2	Manor	56
3	Penkside	55
4	Penkridge West	49
5	Huntington and Hatherton	49
6	Wheaton Aston, Bishopswood and Lapley	45
7	Penkridge South East	30
8	Brewood and Coven	23
9	Weeping Cross & Wildwood	17
10	Penkridge North East and Acton Trussell	16
11	Milford	10

Which road in Longridge has the highest level of crime?

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