Total Crime Rate
1409.4 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
649.1 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Hardshaw Street area has the highest crime rate of 46 local areas in Parr , and the 3rd highest crime rate of 602 local areas in St. Helens .
This postcode sits in a local crime hotspot. Overall crime levels here are significantly higher than in the surrounding streets and the wider area.
The overall crime rate in the area around Hardshaw Street (WA10 1RW) in the last 12 months was 1409.4 per 1,000 residents and was 939.0% higher than the Parr average (135.6 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 145 offences recorded. The least common crime was Other crime with 4 cases , down -33.3% compared to 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Possession of weapons ( 25.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Other crime ( -33.3% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 222 (≈ 649.1 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were flat ( 1.4% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -61.6% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Hardshaw Street (WA10 1RW), the main crime hotspot is near Nightclub. Police recorded 267 crimes here, including 121 violent or public-order offences. All these locations are within roughly 0.3 miles.
View Crime In St Helens| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Shopping Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Ward Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Ward Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Exchange Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Exchange Street | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Parking Area | — |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Corporation Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Police Station | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Police Station | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Police Station | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Brook Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Nightclub | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Nightclub | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Nightclub | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Nightclub | — |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Parking Area | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Parking Area | Further investigation is not in the public interest |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Nightclub | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Theatre/Concert Hall | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Chalon Way West | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Chalon Way West | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Chalon Way West | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Chalon Way West | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Chalon Way West | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
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