Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre · West Lancashire
Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre: your neighbourhood
Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre electoral ward · May 2026 boundaries. Every figure carries its own date.
What stands out here?
Homes rented from a council or housing association: 37% here, compared with 14% across West Lancashire (22.3 percentage points higher).
The share of social housing describes the homes already here. It does not show the current waiting list or whether enough suitable homes are available.
21 March 2021 · ward and council use the same source, measure and date.
Why this comparison is valid
The difference is in percentage points. The wider figure is the published council total, not the average of its wards. Differences describe groups, not every resident.
People aged 16+ with a degree or equivalent: 18.8% here, compared with 30% across West Lancashire (11.2 percentage points lower).
Qualifications show local skills, not whether people have secure jobs or use those skills at work.
21 March 2021 · ward and council use the same source, measure and date.
Why this comparison is valid
The difference is in percentage points. The wider figure is the published council total, not the average of its wards. Differences describe groups, not every resident.
Households facing two or more measured disadvantages: 26.7% here, compared with 17.4% across West Lancashire (9.3 percentage points higher).
These households met at least two census conditions covering education, employment, health and housing. This is not an income or poverty measure.
21 March 2021 · ward and council use the same source, measure and date.
Why this comparison is valid
The difference is in percentage points. The wider figure is the published council total, not the average of its wards. Differences describe groups, not every resident.
21 March 2021 · Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre
Show the workings
21 March 2021, residents aged 16 and over. Includes full-time students in the corresponding work/unemployment categories. Not a current labour-market estimate or the usual 16–64 employment rate. Census took place during the coronavirus pandemic; furlough and lockdown affected answers. Ward counts sum complete official output-area best-fit membership; privacy adjustment can make totals differ slightly.
21 March 2021 · Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre
Show the workings
21 March 2021, residents aged 16 and over. Includes full-time students in the corresponding work/unemployment categories. Not a current labour-market estimate or the usual 16–64 employment rate. Census took place during the coronavirus pandemic; furlough and lockdown affected answers. Ward counts sum complete official output-area best-fit membership; privacy adjustment can make totals differ slightly.
Residents aged 16+ not working because of long-term illness or disability
8.4%
21 March 2021 · Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre
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21 March 2021, residents aged 16 and over. Includes full-time students in the corresponding work/unemployment categories. Not a current labour-market estimate or the usual 16–64 employment rate. Census took place during the coronavirus pandemic; furlough and lockdown affected answers. Ward counts sum complete official output-area best-fit membership; privacy adjustment can make totals differ slightly.
21 March 2021 · Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre
Show the workings
21 March 2021, residents aged 16 and over. Includes full-time students in the corresponding work/unemployment categories. Not a current labour-market estimate or the usual 16–64 employment rate. Census took place during the coronavirus pandemic; furlough and lockdown affected answers. Ward counts sum complete official output-area best-fit membership; privacy adjustment can make totals differ slightly.
21 March 2021 · Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre
Show the workings
21 March 2021, residents aged 16 and over. Includes full-time students in the corresponding work/unemployment categories. Not a current labour-market estimate or the usual 16–64 employment rate. Census took place during the coronavirus pandemic; furlough and lockdown affected answers. Ward counts sum complete official output-area best-fit membership; privacy adjustment can make totals differ slightly. Unemployed residents as a share of all residents aged 16+; this is not the unemployment rate among economically active people.
Police-recorded locations for Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre ward. Locations are approximate; these are not all crimes or a measure of personal risk.
889 mapped crimes
September 2025 to August 2026. Compared with 913 in the previous 12 months. Anti-social behaviour is counted separately.
Mapped crime over time
September 2024 to August 2026
Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre ward · mapped crimes
Reviewed figures: September 2024 to August 2026. This reviewed record covers fewer than 30 years, so the chart opens on all of it.
Shown on this chart: 58 mapped crimes in September 2024; 70 mapped crimes in August 2026. These are recorded counts; check the coverage notes before comparing periods.
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Monthly crime and anti-social behaviour
Recorded locations by month · Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre
Month
Mapped crime
Anti-social behaviour
September 2024
58
24
October 2024
89
27
November 2024
83
36
December 2024
65
25
January 2025
59
25
February 2025
54
29
March 2025
71
17
April 2025
84
32
May 2025
95
40
June 2025
74
30
July 2025
120
54
August 2025
61
35
September 2025
77
31
October 2025
69
31
November 2025
73
30
December 2025
74
23
January 2026
50
11
February 2026
72
11
March 2026
72
15
April 2026
80
8
May 2026
77
13
June 2026
84
9
July 2026
91
8
August 2026
70
21
Crime categories in the latest complete year
September 2025 to August 2026 · Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre
Category
Mapped crimes
violent crime
417
criminal damage arson
101
shoplifting
75
public order
66
other theft
55
other crime
36
vehicle crime
34
burglary
31
drugs
31
robbery
19
possession of weapons
17
bicycle theft
4
theft from the person
3
What these numbers include
Approximate published locations, not every crime or personal risk.
Anti-social behaviour is separate. Transport police and unusable locations excluded.
An empty ward count means no mapped rows in the complete required force files; it does not prove that no crime occurred.
These are retrieved mapped records, not a guarantee of complete crime reporting. Approximate locations and unmapped incidents limit comparisons.
Missing ward-months invalidate totals and changes. Busy centres attract visitors, so residential population is not a measure of the number of people exposed.
