Crime Statistics for Hoghton, Chorley, Lancashire, 2024

There were a total of 9 street level crime incidents in Hoghton in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Drugs.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Hoghton, 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	5
Drugs	2
Anti Social Behaviour	2
All Crime	9

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pippin Street (1.76 miles)	50
Brindle (1.76 miles)	50
Top o’th’ Lane (2.24 miles)	45
Jack Green (1.39 miles)	40
Pleasington (1.86 miles)	22
Feniscowles (1.96 miles)	19
Gregson Lane (1.24 miles)	17
Hoghton	9
Hoghton Bottoms (0.88 miles)	6
Samlesbury Bottoms (1.24 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Hoghton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Top o’th’ Lane	16
Pippin Street	14
Brindle	14
Jack Green	11
Pleasington	8
Feniscowles	7
Hoghton	5
Gregson Lane	4
Hoghton Bottoms	4
Samlesbury Bottoms	1

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

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 Hoghton 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 Hoghton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hoghton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Resident in Hoghton have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Mill Hill & Moorgate.

#	Ward	Score
1	Mill Hill & Moorgate	87
2	Clayton-le-Woods North	68
3	Bamber Bridge West	53
4	Bamber Bridge East	49
5	Livesey with Pleasington	47
6	Brindle and Hoghton	43
7	Walton-le-Dale East	39
8	Samlesbury & Walton	36
9	Wheelton and Withnell	22
10	Clayton-le-Woods and Whittle-le-Woods	20
11	Coupe Green & Gregson Lane	12

Which road in Hoghton has the highest level of crime?

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