Crime Statistics for South Shore, Blackpool, Lancashire, 2024

There were a total of 232 street level crime incidents in South Shore in February 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 South Shore, 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	71
Anti Social Behaviour	59
Shoplifting	22
Vehicle Crime	13
Burglary	13
Other Theft	12
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Drugs	10
Public Order	9
Other Crime	7
Possession Of Weapons	3
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	232

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 South Shore. 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 South Shore

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Blackpool (1.96 miles)	1146
Layton (2.24 miles)	1064
Little Layton (2.78 miles)	954
Great Marton (1.96 miles)	315
Marton Moss Side (1.86 miles)	242
South Shore	232
Little Marton (2.55 miles)	224
Squires Gate (0.88 miles)	165
Common Edge (1.39 miles)	164
Great Marton Moss (2.24 miles)	78

Where are the most violent places near South Shore?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Blackpool	488
Layton	451
Little Layton	406
Great Marton	124
Marton Moss Side	91
Little Marton	88
South Shore	71
Common Edge	54
Squires Gate	45
Great Marton Moss	16

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

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 South Shore 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 South Shore compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Bloomfield	99
2	Claremont	96
3	Talbot	94
4	Waterloo	93
5	Victoria	90
6	Tyldesley	86
7	Hawes Side	76
8	Highfield	61
9	Squires Gate	60
10	Stanley	34
11	St Leonards	18

Which road in South Shore has the highest level of crime?

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