Crime Statistics for Little Harwood, Blackburn, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Little Harwood in August 2024. There were a total of 626 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Little Harwood, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	195
Anti Social Behaviour	145
Shoplifting	59
Vehicle Crime	47
Public Order	41
Criminal Damage Arson	36
Other Theft	29
Drugs	25
Robbery	14
Other Crime	13
Burglary	11
Possession Of Weapons	7
Theft From The Person	4
All Crime	626

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Little Harwood. 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 Little Harwood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Brookhouse (0.88 miles)	870
Blackburn (1.39 miles)	720
Four Lane End (1.24 miles)	629
Higher Audley (1.24 miles)	545
Intack (0.88 miles)	371
Little Harwood	369
Brownhill (0.88 miles)	348
Revidge (1.24 miles)	325
Bank Hey (0.62 miles)	175
Pleckgate (1.39 miles)	92

Where are the most violent places near Little Harwood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Brookhouse	361
Brownhill	248
Blackburn	222
Higher Audley	213
Four Lane End	195
Little Harwood	195
Intack	108
Revidge	105
Bank Hey	65
Pleckgate	36

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

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 Little Harwood 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 Little Harwood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Little Harwood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Little Harwood is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Ewood	82
2	Blackburn South East	82
3	Blackburn Central	76
4	Wensley Fold	69
5	Audley & Queen's Park	69
6	Rishton	66
7	Little Harwood & Whitebirk	62
8	Shear Brow & Corporation Park	61
9	Bastwell & Daisyfield	54
10	Roe Lee	52
11	Billinge & Beardwood	50

Which road in Little Harwood has the highest level of crime?

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