Crime Statistics for Appleton, Widnes, Warrington, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Appleton in September 2024. There were a total of 341 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Appleton, 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	141
Shoplifting	44
Anti Social Behaviour	40
Public Order	34
Criminal Damage Arson	18
Other Crime	12
Other Theft	12
Drugs	10
Bicycle Theft	9
Burglary	8
Robbery	5
Vehicle Crime	5
Possession Of Weapons	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	341

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 Appleton. 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 Appleton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Barrow’s Green (0.88 miles)	508
Appleton	341
Halton View (0.62 miles)	341
Crow Wood (0.62 miles)	309
Farnworth (0.62 miles)	220
Higher Runcorn (2.48 miles)	173
Cronton (1.75 miles)	77
Town End (1.75 miles)	69
Bold Heath (2.24 miles)	19
Rainhill Stoops (2.56 miles)	13

Where are the most violent places near Appleton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Barrow’s Green	180
Crow Wood	175
Farnworth	154
Appleton	141
Halton View	134
Higher Runcorn	69
Cronton	54
Town End	33
Rainhill Stoops	3
Bold Heath	1

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

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 Appleton 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 Appleton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Kingsway	86
2	Appleton	85
3	Riverside	81
4	Halton Castle	76
5	Broadheath	75
6	Mersey	73
7	Hough Green	69
8	Ditton	62
9	Halton View	48
10	Birchfield	29
11	Farnworth	26

Which road in Appleton has the highest level of crime?

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