Crime Statistics for Abraham Heights, Lancaster, Lancashire, 2024

Crime statistics for Abraham Heights, Lancaster

There were a total of 73 street level crime incidents in Abraham Heights in January 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 CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour20
Violent Crime20
Criminal Damage Arson7
Shoplifting6
Burglary5
Other Theft5
Public Order3
Vehicle Crime3
Drugs3
Bicycle Theft1
All Crime73

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 Abraham Heights. 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 Abraham Heights

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Torrisholme (1.96 miles)266
Lancaster (0.62 miles)250
Morecambe (2.77 miles)222
Bare (1.96 miles)191
Abraham Heights73
Lower Heysham (3.1 miles)69
Bailrigg (2.24 miles)31
Aldcliffe (0.62 miles)6
Heaton (1.39 miles)3
Stodday (1.86 miles)0

11.82%
of Marsh residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Abraham Heights?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Morecambe99
Lancaster76
Torrisholme65
Bare60
Lower Heysham36
Abraham Heights20
Bailrigg12
Heaton3
Aldcliffe2
Stodday0

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

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 Abraham Heights 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 Abraham Heights compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Abraham Heights and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Abraham Heights is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1Skerton East91
2Bulk85
3Skerton West72
4Westgate63
5Castle60
6Marsh57
7Scotforth West43
8Scotforth East34
9Torrisholme30
10John O'Gaunt21
11Lower Lune Valley17

Which road in Abraham Heights has the highest level of crime?

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

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