Crime Statistics for Bolton, Bradford, Bradford, 2024

There were a total of 445 street level crime incidents in Bolton in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bolton, 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	199
Public Order	35
Anti Social Behaviour	35
Other Theft	33
Criminal Damage Arson	33
Vehicle Crime	23
Shoplifting	22
Other Crime	21
Burglary	15
Drugs	12
Robbery	7
Possession Of Weapons	5
Theft From The Person	5
All Crime	445

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Bolton. 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 Bolton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Undercliffe (0.88 miles)	869
Manningham (0.88 miles)	845
Fagley (1.39 miles)	522
Bolton Woods (0.62 miles)	463
Frizinghall (1.24 miles)	452
Bolton	445
Bank Top (1.39 miles)	380
Idle Moor (1.24 miles)	325
Eccleshill (0.88 miles)	319
Idle (1.39 miles)	299

Where are the most violent places near Bolton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Undercliffe	360
Manningham	352
Fagley	244
Frizinghall	221
Bolton Woods	212
Bolton	199
Bank Top	175
Idle Moor	129
Eccleshill	122
Idle	112

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

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 Bolton 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 Bolton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Eccleshill	97
2	Bowling and Barkerend	94
3	Little Horton	92
4	Bolton and Undercliffe	92
5	City	90
6	Bradford Moor	90
7	Windhill and Wrose	87
8	Manningham	86
9	Idle and Thackley	85
10	Shipley	83
11	Toller	79

Which road in Bolton has the highest level of crime?

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