Crime Statistics for Edge Green, Wigan, Wigan, 2024

There were a total of 2 street level crime incidents in Edge Green in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Robbery, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Robbery	1
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	2

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 Edge Green. 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 Edge Green

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Old Boston (1.75 miles)	164
Bryn (1.96 miles)	11
Ashton-in-Makerfield (1.24 miles)	11
Edge Green	2
Town Green (0.62 miles)	2
Land Gate (1.75 miles)	1
Bamfurlong (1.24 miles)	0
Abram (1.39 miles)	0
Dover (1.75 miles)	0
Bryn Gates (1.24 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Edge Green?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Old Boston	71
Bryn	5
Ashton-in-Makerfield	4
Land Gate	1
Edge Green	0
Town Green	0
Bamfurlong	0
Abram	0
Dover	0
Bryn Gates	0

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

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 Edge Green 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 Edge Green compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Edge Green and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Edge Green is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Leigh West	89
2	Abram	83
3	Earlestown	67
4	Hindley	66
5	Burtonwood and Winwick	58
6	Newton	56
7	Golborne and Lowton West	49
8	Bryn	49
9	Ashton	45
10	Haydock	39
11	Lowton East	37

Which road in Edge Green has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Edge Green with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Lily Farm Croft.