Crime Statistics for Main ****, Fylde, Lancashire, 2024

There were a total of 111 street level crime incidents in Main Dyke in March 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 Main Dyke, 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	43
Anti Social Behaviour	30
Public Order	11
Other Theft	10
Drugs	6
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Other Crime	2
Shoplifting	2
Burglary	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	111

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 Main Dyke. 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 Main Dyke

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Layton (2.12 miles)	1165
Great Marton (1.58 miles)	400
Marton Moss Side (1.93 miles)	289
Little Marton (1.06 miles)	283
Peel Hill (1.32 miles)	122
Main Dyke	111
Staining (0.98 miles)	98
Hardhorn (1.81 miles)	92
Great Plumpton (2.12 miles)	2
Little Plumpton (2.19 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Main Dyke?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Layton	399
Great Marton	125
Little Marton	92
Marton Moss Side	81
Peel Hill	47
Main Dyke	43
Hardhorn	34
Staining	27
Great Plumpton	0
Little Plumpton	0

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

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 Main Dyke 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 Main Dyke compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Main Dyke and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Main Dyke is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bloomfield	99
2	Victoria	90
3	Tyldesley	86
4	Marton	84
5	Hawes Side	76
6	Park	75
7	Clifton	65
8	Warton and Westby	31
9	Tithebarn	31
10	Hardhorn with High Cross	27
11	Staining and Weeton	25

Which road in Main Dyke has the highest level of crime?

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