Crime Statistics for Great Lever, Bolton, Bolton, 2024

There were a total of 1 street level crime incidents in in January 2024. The largest category was Violent Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Great Lever, 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	1
All Crime	1

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 Great Lever. 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 Great Lever

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Mill Hill (1.24 miles)	2
Tonge Fold (1.39 miles)	2
Harper Green (0.62 miles)	1
Great Lever	1
Moses Gate (0.88 miles)	1
Burnden (0.62 miles)	1
Farnworth (1.39 miles)	0
Edge Fold (1.39 miles)	0
New Bury (1.39 miles)	0
Highfield (1.39 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Great Lever?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Mill Hill	1
Tonge Fold	1
Harper Green	1
Great Lever	1
Moses Gate	1
Burnden	1
Farnworth	0
Edge Fold	0
New Bury	0
Highfield	0

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

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 Great Lever 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 Great Lever compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Farnworth	97
2	Halliwell	94
3	Tonge with the Haulgh	87
4	Rumworth	87
5	Great Lever	86
6	Crompton	86
7	Harper Green	84
8	Hulton	80
9	Kearsley	69
10	Little Lever and Darcy Lever	69
11	Heaton and Lostock	58

Which road in Great Lever has the highest level of crime?

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