Total Crime Rate
121.6 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
63.1 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Crook Street area has the 18th highest crime rate of 58 local areas in Chorley North West , and the 78th highest crime rate of 368 local areas in Chorley .
Crime levels at this postcode are much higher than in the adjoining streets, suggesting that most neighbouring areas are relatively safer than this one.
The overall crime rate in the area around Crook Street (PR7 2LX) in the last 12 months was 121.6 per 1,000 residents and was 42.6% 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 13 offences recorded. The least common crime was Public order with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. All major crime categories fell. The sharpest drop was Violence and sexual offences ( -18.8% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 14 (≈ 63.1 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -17.6% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -61.8% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Crook Street (PR7 2LX), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Petrol Station, where police recorded 50 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Thirlmere Road (17 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Chorley| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Bamber Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Buttermere Avenue | Under investigation |
| 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 | Scawfell Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Scawfell Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Ullswater Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Grasmere Terrace | 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 | Moor Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Moor Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Moor Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Petrol Station | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Crook Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Crook Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Petrol Station | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Green Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Bamber Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Bamber Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Derwent Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Green Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Green Street | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Green Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Green Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Lakeland Gardens | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Lakeland Gardens | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Lakeland Gardens | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Lakeland Gardens | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Long Meadow | Under investigation |
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