Crime Statistics for Bank Fold, Grimshaw, Lancashire, 2025

Is Bank Fold rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 13 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 Behaviour6
Violent Crime3
Criminal Damage Arson2
Theft From The Person1
Drugs1
All Crime13

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 Bank Fold. 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 Bank Fold

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Lower Darwen (1.96 miles)212
Chapels (1.39 miles)201
Knuzden Brook (1.86 miles)200
Earcroft (1.86 miles)192
Grimshaw (0.62 miles)84
Hoddlesden (1.24 miles)54
Waterside (0.62 miles)51
Blacksnape (1.86 miles)51
Bank Fold13
Belthorn13

3.21%
of West Pennine residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Bank Fold?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Knuzden Brook90
Lower Darwen66
Chapels65
Earcroft62
Hoddlesden32
Grimshaw24
Waterside21
Blacksnape21
Bank Fold3
Belthorn3

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

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 Bank Fold 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 Bank Fold compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Darwen East84
2Ewood82
3Blackburn South East82
4Darwen West74
5Darwen South64
6Little Harwood & Whitebirk62
7Blackburn South & Lower Darwen61
8Immanuel52
9St Oswald's46
10West Pennine40
11Helmshore18

Which road in Bank Fold has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2025
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