Crime Statistics for Town Centre, Lancashire, 2024

There were a total of 214 street level crime incidents in Town Centre 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 Town Centre, 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	75
Anti Social Behaviour	52
Criminal Damage Arson	20
Shoplifting	14
Other Theft	13
Burglary	11
Public Order	11
Vehicle Crime	9
Drugs	4
Theft From The Person	2
Other Crime	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	214

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 Town Centre. 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 Town Centre

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Birch Green (0.62 miles)	263
Town Centre	214
Tanhouse (0.88 miles)	202
Ashurst (0.62 miles)	198
Newgate (1.96 miles)	124
Up Holland (1.96 miles)	124
Dalton (1.39 miles)	109
Chapel House (0.62 miles)	68
Pennylands (0.62 miles)	68
Blaguegate (1.86 miles)	6

Where are the most violent places near Town Centre?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Birch Green	96
Town Centre	75
Ashurst	73
Tanhouse	70
Dalton	45
Newgate	42
Up Holland	42
Chapel House	21
Pennylands	21
Blaguegate	1

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

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 Town Centre 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 Town Centre compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Moorside	90
2	Digmoor	80
3	Tanhouse	74
4	Birch Green	63
5	Orrell	45
6	Skelmersdale North	44
7	Skelmersdale South	43
8	Ashurst	33
9	Up Holland	27
10	Wrightington	13
11	Newburgh	4

Which road in Town Centre has the highest level of crime?

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