Crime Statistics for Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire, 2024

Crime statistics for Fulwood, Preston

There were a total of 681 street level crime incidents in Fulwood in January 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 Fulwood, 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 Crime205
Anti Social Behaviour199
Criminal Damage Arson54
Other Theft41
Drugs35
Public Order33
Shoplifting32
Burglary25
Vehicle Crime23
Other Crime10
Theft From The Person7
Possession Of Weapons7
Robbery5
Bicycle Theft5
All Crime681

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 Fulwood. 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 Fulwood

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Fulwood681
Holme Slack (0.62 miles)531
Frenchwood (1.86 miles)418
Ribbleton (1.39 miles)406
Brookfield (1.24 miles)404
Cadley (1.24 miles)371
Fishwick (1.75 miles)278
Ingol (1.86 miles)256
Grange (1.86 miles)192
Tanterton (1.96 miles)156

29.02%
of Plungington residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Fulwood?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Fulwood205
Holme Slack166
Ribbleton141
Brookfield141
Cadley128
Frenchwood103
Fishwick89
Ingol89
Grange74
Tanterton55

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

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 Fulwood 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 Fulwood compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1St Matthew's97
2Brookfield84
3Plungington82
4City Centre82
5Fishwick & Frenchwood81
6Deepdale80
7Ribbleton79
8Ashton74
9Cadley65
10Greyfriars39
11Garrison31

Which road in Fulwood has the highest level of crime?

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

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