Crime Statistics for Atherton, Wigan, Wigan, 2024

There were no crime incidents reported to the Police in Atherton in January 2024.

Crime Category	Incidents
All Crime	0

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 Atherton. 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 Atherton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Water’s Nook (1.39 miles)	2
Daisy Hill (1.39 miles)	1
Chequerbent (1.86 miles)	1
Tyldesley (2.24 miles)	0
Atherton	0
Hollins (2.24 miles)	0
Higher Folds (1.96 miles)	0
Hag Fold (0.62 miles)	0
Shakerley (1.24 miles)	0
Greenheys (1.96 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Atherton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Water’s Nook	2
Daisy Hill	1
Chequerbent	1
Tyldesley	0
Atherton	0
Hollins	0
Higher Folds	0
Hag Fold	0
Shakerley	0
Greenheys	0

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

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 Atherton 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 Atherton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Atherton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Atherton is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Leigh West	89
2	Atherleigh	82
3	Atherton	81
4	Hulton	80
5	Leigh East	79
6	Leigh South	66
7	Tyldesley	60
8	Westhoughton South	55
9	Hindley Green	51
10	Westhoughton North and Chew Moor	50
11	Astley Mosley Common	48

Which road in Atherton has the highest level of crime?

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