Crime Statistics for Lea, Preston, Lancashire, 2024

Crime statistics for Lea, Preston

There were a total of 69 street level crime incidents in Lea 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 Lea, 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 Crime21
Anti Social Behaviour13
Criminal Damage Arson7
Shoplifting7
Public Order6
Vehicle Crime5
Other Crime3
Other Theft3
Burglary2
Drugs2
All Crime69

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 Lea. 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 Lea

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Cadley (1.96 miles)371
Ingol (1.39 miles)256
Tanterton (1.75 miles)156
Larches (0.62 miles)119
Higher Bartle (1.96 miles)80
Lea69
Higher Penwortham (1.75 miles)39
Lower Bartle (1.86 miles)28
Bottom of Hutton (1.96 miles)21
Lea Town (1.39 miles)8

8.27%
of Lea & Larches residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Lea?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Cadley128
Ingol89
Tanterton55
Larches35
Higher Bartle24
Lea21
Higher Penwortham16
Bottom of Hutton12
Lower Bartle6
Lea Town1

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

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 Lea 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 Lea compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lea and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Lea is ranked #2.

#WardScore
1City Centre82
2Lea & Larches76
3Ashton74
4Ingol & Cottam67
5Cadley65
6Middleforth64
7Greyfriars39
8Broad Oak32
9Howick & Priory32
10New Longton & Hutton East24
11Newton and Treales16

Which road in Lea has the highest level of crime?

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

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