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LA18 crime rate and statistics
The LA18 postcode district, in the LA (Lancaster) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 360 street-crime records for LA18 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 1.1% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 43.3 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 79.6 for Cumbria Constabulary. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
360
Latest month (August 2026)
25
Year-on-year
-1.1%
Month-by-month totals
430
31
Sep
35
Oct
38
Nov
32
Dec
19
Jan
27
Feb
31
Mar
27
Apr
43
May
28
Jun
24
Jul
25
Aug
Show as a table
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
31
October 2025
35
November 2025
38
December 2025
32
January 2026
19
February 2026
27
March 2026
31
April 2026
27
May 2026
43
June 2026
28
July 2026
24
August 2026
25
Street-crime records per 1,000 residents
Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.
LA18
43.3
Cumbria Constabulary
79.6
360 records and 8,312 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.
No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.
Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.
Top crime categories
Share of LA18 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Violence and sexual offences55.0%
198 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Criminal damage and arson11.1%
40 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Public order10.0%
36 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Drugs5.0%
18 records · England and Wales 3.4%
Other crime4.7%
17 records · England and Wales 2.2%
Other theft3.3%
12 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Anti-social behaviour2.5%
9 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Shoplifting2.5%
9 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Where records cluster in LA18
Records by part of LA18: the south 231, the south-east 91, the north-east 10, the south-west 4.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 280 m across, the size the crime map uses zoomed in, and holds at least one of LA18's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and LA18's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of LA18 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore LA18 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for LA18 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
400
2022
486
2023
363
2024
395
2025
351
2026 (part year)
224
Is LA18 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for LA18 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 30 records a month. The busiest month was May 2026, with 43.
Records here changed by -1.1% on the 12 months before, against +1.2% across the Cumbria Constabulary area, the main force here with 99.2% of LA18's records, over the same months. With 360 records a year, a change of a few percent can be chance.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 55.0% of records, against 35.5% across England and Wales over the same months.
The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in LA18 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.
Limits to keep in mind
Published locations are approximate; they are snapped to anonymous map points before release, and each record is assigned to a district by its nearest postcode. Counts near district boundaries are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Outcome labels in the source data are not court results or conviction rates.
Covers 100.0% of the 8,312 Census 2021 residents of LA18.
England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in England, 23.1% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 0.0% in the least deprived 20%.
0%1
23%2
0%3
58%4
19%5
0%6
0%7
0%8
0%9
0%10
Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas. Shares are rounded, so they may not total 100%.
Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.
About LA18 beyond crime
Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the
methodology page.
House prices
Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.
Year
All sales
2026 (part year)
£110,000 (59)
2025
£137,000 (131)
2024
£120,000 (115)
2023
£125,000 (115)
2022
£114,000 (113)
Show prices by property type
Year
Detached
Semi
Terraced
Flat
2026
– (4)
£165,000 (5)
£96,500 (49)
– (1)
2025
£285,000 (28)
£158,000 (23)
£110,000 (80)
–
2024
£255,000 (17)
£150,000 (25)
£102,500 (72)
– (1)
2023
£235,000 (17)
£162,500 (36)
£91,000 (62)
–
2022
£280,000 (15)
£159,000 (23)
£95,000 (75)
–
Schools and colleges
7 open establishments with a postcode in LA18, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.
Postcodes in England with properties in each band (Environment Agency), counted by the highest long-term risk band of any property in the postcode. Postcodes not listed have no property in a rivers-and-sea risk area, and postcodes outside England are not covered. Risk applies to the area around an address, not the address itself. Surface-water risk is not published by postcode. Edition: NaFRA2, revised 18 Jun 2026.
Highest band
Postcodes
High
32
Medium
7
Low
16
Very low
12
Broadband
Share of the 300 postcodes in LA18 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.
Service
Every premises
Some premises
Gigabit
24.3%
33.7%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
87.3%
95.0%
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