Crime Statistics for Earlestown, Collins Green, St Helens, 2024

Crime statistics for Earlestown, Collins Green

There were a total of 151 street level crime incidents in Earlestown in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Earlestown, 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 Crime68
Shoplifting23
Public Order15
Criminal Damage Arson14
Anti Social Behaviour8
Drugs7
Other Theft6
Burglary5
Vehicle Crime2
Theft From The Person2
Other Crime1
All Crime151

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 Earlestown. 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 Earlestown

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Broad Oak (1.86 miles)311
Moss Nook (1.96 miles)233
Parr (1.96 miles)233
Blackbrook (1.39 miles)230
Newton-le-Willows (1.24 miles)225
Old Boston (1.39 miles)164
Earlestown151
Wargrave (1.39 miles)122
Rainford Brook (0.8 miles)100
Collins Green (0.88 miles)87

4.28%
of Burtonwood and Winwick residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Earlestown?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Broad Oak150
Blackbrook122
Moss Nook104
Parr104
Newton-le-Willows91
Old Boston71
Earlestown68
Collins Green45
Wargrave41
Rainford Brook30

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

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 Earlestown 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 Earlestown compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Earlestown and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Earlestown is ranked #5.

#WardScore
1Parr83
2Sutton70
3Earlestown67
4Moss Bank58
5Burtonwood and Winwick58
6Newton56
7Golborne and Lowton West49
8Blackbrook48
9Haydock39
10Billinge and Seneley Green39
11Westbrook37

Which road in Earlestown has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Earlestown 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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