Crime Statistics for Bacup, Rossendale, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bacup in September 2024. There were a total of 285 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	72
Violent Crime	71
Criminal Damage Arson	42
Vehicle Crime	20
Other Theft	18
Public Order	16
Burglary	14
Other Crime	7
Drugs	6
Shoplifting	6
Robbery	6
Possession Of Weapons	4
Bicycle Theft	3
All Crime	285

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Bacup. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Bacup

We've taken the ten nearest places to Bacup and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Bacup has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Bacup	261
Broad Clough (0.62 miles)	249
Rake Head (1.39 miles)	131
Greave (0.88 miles)	119
Higher Hogshead (1.24 miles)	89
Stacksteads (1.39 miles)	75
Nun Hills (0.88 miles)	61
Belgrave (0.62 miles)	55
Britannia (1.39 miles)	21
Boarsgreave (1.75 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Bacup?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Bacup and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Broad Clough	79
Bacup	71
Rake Head	53
Greave	51
Higher Hogshead	33
Belgrave	31
Stacksteads	29
Nun Hills	24
Britannia	8
Boarsgreave	1

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Bacup?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Bacup to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Bacup compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bacup and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Bacup have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Goodshaw.

#	Ward	Score
1	Stacksteads	78
2	Greensclough	73
3	Irwell	70
4	Facit and Shawforth	67
5	Hareholme	65
6	Longholme	61
7	Healey and Whitworth	54
8	Whitewell	40
9	Cribden	38
10	Eden	31
11	Goodshaw	15

Which road in Bacup has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Bacup with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.