Crime Statistics for Higher End, Wigan, Wigan, 2024

There were a total of 3 street level crime incidents in Higher End in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Other Theft, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Crime Category	Incidents
Other Theft	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Violent Crime	1
All Crime	3

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 Higher End. 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 Higher End

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Newgate (1.39 miles)	124
Up Holland (1.39 miles)	124
Tontine (0.62 miles)	37
Brownlow (1.24 miles)	15
Far Moor (0.88 miles)	6
Higher End	3
Lamberhead Green (1.39 miles)	2
Crawford (1.39 miles)	2
Longshaw (0.62 miles)	2
The Bell (1.75 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Higher End?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Newgate	42
Up Holland	42
Tontine	7
Brownlow	7
Crawford	2
Far Moor	1
Higher End	1
Lamberhead Green	1
Longshaw	1
The Bell	0

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

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 Higher End 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 Higher End compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Higher End and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Resident in Higher End have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Moorside.

#	Ward	Score
1	Moorside	90
2	Digmoor	80
3	Pemberton	79
4	Tanhouse	74
5	Birch Green	63
6	Winstanley	48
7	Orrell	45
8	Skelmersdale North	44
9	Skelmersdale South	43
10	Billinge and Seneley Green	39
11	Up Holland	27

Which road in Higher End has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Higher End with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around M58.