Crime Statistics for Longton, South Ribble, Lancashire, 2024

There were a total of 30 street level crime incidents in Longton in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	11
Violent Crime	8
Public Order	6
Other Theft	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	30

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 Longton. 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 Longton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Cocker Bar (2.63 miles)	35
Longton	30
New Longton (1.86 miles)	28
Becconsall (2.63 miles)	25
Bottom of Hutton (1.39 miles)	22
Little Hoole Moss Houses (1.39 miles)	18
Walmer Bridge (0.62 miles)	18
Hesketh Bank (2.77 miles)	13
Goose Green (1.86 miles)	10
Hall Green (0.88 miles)	10

Where are the most violent places near Longton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Cocker Bar	11
Becconsall	11
Longton	8
Bottom of Hutton	8
Little Hoole Moss Houses	8
New Longton	6
Walmer Bridge	6
Hesketh Bank	6
Goose Green	5
Hall Green	4

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

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 Longton 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 Longton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Middleforth	64
2	Broad Oak	32
3	Moss Side	32
4	Howick & Priory	32
5	Freckleton East	27
6	New Longton & Hutton East	24
7	Newton and Treales	16
8	Tarleton	16
9	Hesketh-with-Becconsall	11
10	Hoole	11
11	Longton & Hutton West	8

Which road in Longton has the highest level of crime?

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