Crime Statistics for Plank Lane, Wigan, Wigan, 2024

Crime statistics for Plank Lane, Wigan

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

Crime CategoryIncidents
All Crime0

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 Plank Lane. 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.

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Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Plank Lane

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Bickershaw (1.39 miles)1
Pocket Nook (1.96 miles)1
Aspult Common (1.24 miles)0
Crankwood (0.62 miles)0
Plank Lane0
Abram (1.96 miles)0
Dover (1.39 miles)0
Pennington (1.39 miles)0
Firs Lane (0.62 miles)0
Tamer Lane End (0.62 miles)0

10.95%
of Leigh West residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Plank Lane?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Bickershaw1
Pocket Nook0
Aspult Common0
Crankwood0
Plank Lane0
Abram0
Dover0
Pennington0
Firs Lane0
Tamer Lane End0

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

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 Plank Lane 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 Plank Lane compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Plank Lane and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Residents in Plank Lane have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Lowton East.

#WardScore
1Leigh West89
2Abram83
3Atherleigh82
4Atherton81
5Leigh East79
6Leigh South66
7Hindley66
8Hindley Green51
9Golborne and Lowton West49
10Ashton45
11Lowton East37

Which road in Plank Lane has the highest level of crime?

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