Crime Statistics for Lower Heysham, Lancaster, Lancashire, 2024

There were a total of 72 street level crime incidents in Lower Heysham in February 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 Lower Heysham, 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	23
Anti Social Behaviour	20
Vehicle Crime	7
Other Theft	6
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Possession Of Weapons	3
Burglary	3
Robbery	3
Drugs	1
Public Order	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	72

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 Lower Heysham. 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 Lower Heysham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Morecambe (1.39 miles)	213
Torrisholme (3.1 miles)	194
Bare (3.1 miles)	194
Abraham Heights (3.1 miles)	79
Lower Heysham	72
Heysham	72
Higher Heysham (0.62 miles)	52
Aldcliffe (3.16 miles)	7
Heaton (1.96 miles)	2
Stodday (3.62 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Lower Heysham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Morecambe	83
Torrisholme	57
Bare	57
Lower Heysham	23
Heysham	23
Abraham Heights	20
Higher Heysham	18
Aldcliffe	4
Heaton	1
Stodday	0

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

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 Lower Heysham 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 Lower Heysham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lower Heysham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Lower Heysham is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Heysham North	87
2	Harbour	87
3	Poulton	74
4	Heysham Central	66
5	Westgate	63
6	Heysham South	59
7	Marsh	57
8	Bare	45
9	Scotforth West	43
10	Torrisholme	30

Which road in Lower Heysham has the highest level of crime?

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