Crime Statistics for Lancaster, Lancashire, 2024

There were a total of 330 street level crime incidents in Lancaster in March 2024. 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	88
Violent Crime	71
Shoplifting	35
Burglary	30
Other Theft	26
Criminal Damage Arson	21
Vehicle Crime	18
Public Order	17
Drugs	6
Possession Of Weapons	5
Bicycle Theft	5
Other Crime	4
Theft From The Person	2
Robbery	2
All Crime	330

Map of street level crime incidents in March 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lancaster	330
Bare (2.24 miles)	196
Torrisholme (2.24 miles)	194
Abraham Heights (0.62 miles)	95
Bailrigg (1.96 miles)	34
Halton (2.63 miles)	12
Conder (2.87 miles)	7
Aldcliffe (0.88 miles)	7
Heaton (1.96 miles)	3
Stodday (1.96 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Lancaster?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lancaster	71
Bare	70
Torrisholme	57
Abraham Heights	16
Bailrigg	11
Halton	1
Conder	1
Aldcliffe	1
Heaton	1
Stodday	0

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

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 Lancaster 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 Lancaster compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Skerton East	91
2	Bulk	85
3	Skerton West	72
4	Westgate	63
5	Castle	60
6	Marsh	57
7	Scotforth West	43
8	Scotforth East	34
9	Torrisholme	30
10	John O'Gaunt	21
11	Lower Lune Valley	17

Which road in Lancaster has the highest level of crime?

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