Crime Statistics for Lower Penwortham, South Ribble, Lancashire

The aim of this article is to provide a brief overview of street level crime in Lower Penwortham using the latest Police statistics. Police data is usually published two months in arrears, so November 2020 are the latest figures. The data published by the Police are incidents that were reported to them in that month, not the crimes that were prosecuted and/or had further action taken. In by far the majority of incidents, no further action is taken.

There were a total of 293 street level crime incidents in Lower Penwortham in November 2020. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime. Below are these incidents broken down by category.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	126
Violent Crime	69
Criminal Damage Arson	29
Public Order	16
Shoplifting	13
Other Theft	10
Vehicle Crime	9
Burglary	6
Possession Of Weapons	5
Drugs	4
Theft From The Person	2
Other Crime	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	293

Map of street level crime incidents in November 2020

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Fulwood (1.96 miles)	824
Cadley (1.96 miles)	484
Fishwick (1.96 miles)	407
Frenchwood (0.62 miles)	380
Lower Penwortham	293
Larches (2.24 miles)	166
Walton-le-Dale (1.39 miles)	155
Lostock Hall (1.96 miles)	86
Tardy Gate (1.86 miles)	57
Higher Penwortham (1.24 miles)	44

3.8%
of South Ribble residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2011 Census

Most violent places near Lower Penwortham

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