Crime Statistics for Hoohill, Blackpool, Lancashire, 2024

Crime statistics for Hoohill, Blackpool

There were a total of 976 street level crime incidents in Hoohill in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Hoohill, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime384
Anti Social Behaviour224
Criminal Damage Arson74
Shoplifting56
Public Order44
Other Theft42
Vehicle Crime40
Burglary40
Drugs19
Possession Of Weapons17
Theft From The Person13
Other Crime10
Robbery9
Bicycle Theft4
All Crime976

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Hoohill. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Hoohill

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Blackpool (0.88 miles)1141
Layton (0.62 miles)1088
Hoohill976
Little Layton976
Warbreck (0.62 miles)502
Little Carleton (0.88 miles)292
North Shore (1.39 miles)288
Carleton (1.39 miles)224
Hardhorn (1.96 miles)105
Staining (1.39 miles)92

10.2%
of Layton residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Hoohill?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Blackpool420
Layton406
Hoohill384
Little Layton384
Warbreck203
Little Carleton125
North Shore122
Carleton103
Hardhorn41
Staining41

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

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 Hoohill 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 Hoohill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Bloomfield99
2Claremont96
3Talbot94
4Brunswick94
5Victoria90
6Tyldesley86
7Layton82
8Warbreck82
9Park75
10Greenlands52
11Tithebarn31

Which road in Hoohill has the highest level of crime?

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

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