Crime Statistics for Altham, Hyndburn, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Altham in September 2024. There were a total of 12 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 CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour9
Violent Crime2
Vehicle Crime1
All Crime12

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 Altham. 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 Altham

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Milnshaw (2.24 miles)388
Oakenshaw (1.96 miles)247
Padiham (1.39 miles)163
Great Harwood (2.48 miles)154
Lowerhouse (2.48 miles)149
Lane Ends (1.75 miles)42
Hapton (1.39 miles)27
Altham12
Read (1.39 miles)8
Calder (0.84 miles)5

4.96%
of Altham residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Altham?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Milnshaw242
Oakenshaw78
Great Harwood54
Padiham44
Lowerhouse37
Lane Ends27
Hapton8
Read3
Altham2
Calder0

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

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 Altham 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 Altham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Altham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Altham is ranked #8.

#WardScore
1Peel91
2Gawthorpe85
3Barnfield83
4Central81
5Netherton70
6Hapton with Park69
7Milnshaw66
8Altham63
9Clayton-le-Moors57
10Huncoat52
11East Whalley, Read & Simonstone20

Which road in Altham has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0