Crime Statistics for Bispham, Blackpool, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bispham in August 2024. There were a total of 232 incidents. 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 Bispham, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime107
Anti Social Behaviour65
Criminal Damage Arson13
Vehicle Crime12
Other Theft12
Shoplifting6
Burglary5
Other Crime4
Drugs2
Bicycle Theft2
Public Order2
Possession Of Weapons1
Theft From The Person1
All Crime232

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Warbreck (1.43 miles)680
Anchorsholme (1.12 miles)372
North Shore (1.7 miles)336
Little Carleton (1.67 miles)315
Bispham232
Carleton (1.19 miles)226
Burn Naze (1.93 miles)222
Little Bispham (0.57 miles)203
Trunnah (1.93 miles)192
Breedy Butts (1.53 miles)108

4.72%
of Bispham residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Bispham?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Warbreck240
Anchorsholme158
Little Carleton144
North Shore124
Bispham107
Carleton107
Little Bispham78
Burn Naze67
Trunnah67
Breedy Butts43

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

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 Bispham 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 Bispham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bispham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bispham is ranked #3.

#WardScore
1Layton82
2Warbreck82
3Bispham62
4Ingthorpe58
5Jubilee53
6Greenlands52
7Norbreck48
8Anchorsholme34
9Tithebarn31
10Victoria & Norcross20
11Carleton16

Which road in Bispham has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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