Crime Statistics for Chapel House, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Chapel House in September 2024. There were a total of 113 incidents. 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 Behaviour36
Violent Crime31
Burglary12
Criminal Damage Arson7
Shoplifting7
Other Theft4
Public Order4
Vehicle Crime4
Other Crime3
Drugs3
Robbery1
Bicycle Theft1
All Crime113

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Tanhouse (1.39 miles)214
Town Centre (0.62 miles)205
Pennylands203
Ashurst (0.88 miles)199
Birch Green (1.24 miles)197
Chapel House113
Dalton (1.75 miles)87
Blaguegate (1.24 miles)22
Bickerstaffe (2.24 miles)9
Rainford Brook (1.78 miles)4

6.85%
of Skelmersdale South residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Chapel House?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Tanhouse89
Town Centre62
Birch Green62
Pennylands56
Ashurst56
Chapel House31
Dalton28
Blaguegate8
Bickerstaffe2
Rainford Brook1

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

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 Chapel House 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 Chapel House compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Moorside90
2Digmoor80
3Tanhouse74
4Birch Green63
5Skelmersdale North44
6Skelmersdale South43
7Scott34
8Ashurst33
9Up Holland27
10Derby22
11Newburgh4

Which road in Chapel House has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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