Crime Statistics for Great Altcar, Lancashire, 2024

Crime statistics for Great Altcar, Great Altcar

There were a total of 8 street level crime incidents in Great Altcar in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Burglary.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Criminal Damage Arson5
Burglary1
Public Order1
Violent Crime1
All Crime8

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 Altcar. 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 Great Altcar

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Formby (1.96 miles)80
Little Altcar (1.24 miles)70
Freshfield (2.24 miles)62
Little Crosby (3.17 miles)57
Homer Green (2.78 miles)24
Lady Green (1.96 miles)12
Great Altcar8
Carr Houses (1.86 miles)6
Ince Blundell (1.86 miles)6
Downholland Cross (2.48 miles)2

4.46%
of Harington residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Great Altcar?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Formby37
Little Altcar32
Freshfield25
Little Crosby20
Homer Green8
Lady Green5
Carr Houses2
Ince Blundell2
Great Altcar1
Downholland Cross0

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

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 Altcar 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 Altcar compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1St Oswald76
2Manor46
3Victoria44
4Halsall41
5Ainsdale36
6Blundellsands31
7Sudell27
8Aughton and Downholland23
9Ravenmeols23
10Harington22
11Aughton Park9

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

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

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