Crime Statistics for Lathom, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lathom in August 2024. There were a total of 13 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Criminal Damage Arson4
Violent Crime2
Other Theft2
Anti Social Behaviour2
Public Order2
Burglary1
All Crime13

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 Lathom. 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 Lathom

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Ashurst (2.63 miles)199
Burscough Bridge (0.88 miles)45
Hoscar (0.88 miles)25
Blaguegate (2.48 miles)20
Parbold (2.56 miles)14
Lathom13
Burscough (1.24 miles)13
Newburgh (1.86 miles)12
New Lane (2.24 miles)10
Grimshaw Green (2.24 miles)3

3.51%
of Newburgh residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Lathom?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Ashurst71
Burscough Bridge14
Hoscar11
Blaguegate8
Parbold5
Burscough5
Newburgh3
New Lane3
Lathom2
Grimshaw Green0

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

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 Lathom 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 Lathom compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Birch Green63
2Skelmersdale South43
3Scott34
4Ashurst33
5Burscough East27
6Derby22
7Knowsley18
8Burscough West18
9Scarisbrick12
10Newburgh4
11Parbold3

Which road in Lathom has the highest level of crime?

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

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