Crime Statistics for Town Green, Wigan, Wigan, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Town Green in September 2024. There were a total of 9 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Vehicle Crime3
Other Theft2
Violent Crime2
Criminal Damage Arson1
Public Order1
All Crime9

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 Town 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 Town Green

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Old Boston (1.39 miles)118
Edge Green (0.62 miles)18
Ashton-in-Makerfield (0.62 miles)17
Tithe Barn Hillock (1.86 miles)16
Bryn (1.39 miles)11
Town Green9
Land Gate (1.39 miles)2
Bamfurlong (1.39 miles)0
Abram (1.75 miles)0
Bryn Gates (1.39 miles)0

3.52%
of Ashton (Wigan) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Town Green?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Old Boston47
Edge Green8
Tithe Barn Hillock7
Bryn7
Ashton-in-Makerfield5
Town Green2
Land Gate2
Bamfurlong0
Abram0
Bryn Gates0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Town 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 Town 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 Town Green compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Town Green and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Town Green is ranked #9.

#WardScore
1Abram83
2Earlestown67
3Burtonwood and Winwick58
4Newton56
5Golborne and Lowton West49
6Bryn49
7Blackbrook48
8Winstanley48
9Ashton45
10Haydock39
11Lowton East37

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

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

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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