Total Crime Rate
37.8 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
26.7 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Ullswater Road area has the 11th lowest crime rate of 58 local areas in Chorley North West , and the 128th lowest crime rate of 368 local areas in Chorley .
This postcode forms a relatively safe pocket compared with the surrounding streets. Neighbouring areas record much higher crime levels, even though this postcode itself remains comparatively low-crime.
The overall crime rate in the area around Ullswater Road (PR7 2JB) in the last 12 months was 37.8 per 1,000 residents and was 82.2% lower than the Chorley North West average (212.0 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 10 offences recorded. The least common crime was Other theft with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Public order ( 100.0% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2025.
Violent crimes totalled 12 (≈ 26.7 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 33.3% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -68.8% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Ullswater Road (PR7 2JB), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Petrol Station, where police recorded 50 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Mountbatten Road (18 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Chorley| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Egerton Grove | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Scawfell Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Black Horse Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Black Horse Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Black Horse Street | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Moor Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Moor Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Moor Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Moor Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Grasmere Terrace | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Ullswater Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Scawfell Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Crook Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | B5251 | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | B5251 | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Bamber Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Bamber Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Bamber Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Petrol Station | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Petrol Station | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Calder Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Douglas Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Crook Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Moor Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Tootell Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Buttermere Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Possession of weapons | Egerton Grove | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Egerton Grove | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Oakwood Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Lakeland Gardens | — |
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