Crime Statistics for Accrington, Hyndburn, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Accrington in October 2024. There were a total of 553 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 Accrington, 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	170
Anti Social Behaviour	160
Criminal Damage Arson	49
Other Theft	36
Shoplifting	34
Public Order	23
Burglary	20
Vehicle Crime	20
Other Crime	15
Drugs	14
Possession Of Weapons	5
Robbery	4
Theft From The Person	2
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	553

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Milnshaw (0.62 miles)	851
Accrington	553
Spring Hill (0.62 miles)	331
Church (0.88 miles)	282
Oakenshaw (1.96 miles)	230
Tottleworth (2.24 miles)	208
Broadfield (0.88 miles)	208
Little Moor End (1.39 miles)	175
Green Haworth (1.24 miles)	27
Baxenden (1.75 miles)	24

Where are the most violent places near Accrington?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Milnshaw	318
Accrington	170
Spring Hill	120
Church	93
Oakenshaw	93
Tottleworth	77
Broadfield	76
Little Moor End	73
Green Haworth	10
Baxenden	9

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

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 Accrington 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 Accrington compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Accrington and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Accrington is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Peel	91
2	Spring Hill	86
3	St Andrew's	86
4	Church	83
5	Barnfield	83
6	Central	81
7	Milnshaw	66
8	Altham	63
9	Clayton-le-Moors	57
10	Huncoat	52
11	Baxenden	33

Which road in Accrington has the highest level of crime?

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