Crime Statistics for Balladen, Rossendale, Lancashire, 2025

Is Balladen rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 56 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	14
Violent Crime	13
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Burglary	4
Other Crime	4
Possession Of Weapons	3
Shoplifting	3
Vehicle Crime	2
Public Order	1
Other Theft	1
All Crime	56

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Laund (1.24 miles)	246
New Hall Hey (0.62 miles)	172
Cloughfold (0.88 miles)	107
Lane Side (1.39 miles)	86
Bent Gate (0.62 miles)	55
Balladen	48
Townsend Fold	48
Helmshore (1.24 miles)	32
Irwell Vale (0.88 miles)	20
Ewood Bridge (0.88 miles)	20

Where are the most violent places near Balladen?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Laund	75
New Hall Hey	50
Cloughfold	28
Lane Side	26
Balladen	13
Townsend Fold	12
Irwell Vale	9
Bent Gate	8
Helmshore	7
Ewood Bridge	5

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

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 Balladen 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 Balladen compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Balladen and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Balladen is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Stacksteads	78
2	Worsley	75
3	Hareholme	65
4	Longholme	61
5	Ramsbottom	50
6	Greenfield	46
7	Whitewell	40
8	Cribden	38
9	North Manor	38
10	Eden	31
11	Goodshaw	15

Which road in Balladen has the highest level of crime?

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