Crime Statistics for Barrowford, Pendle, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Barrowford in September 2024. There were a total of 192 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 Behaviour73
Violent Crime58
Public Order11
Shoplifting11
Other Theft10
Criminal Damage Arson9
Other Crime5
Vehicle Crime5
Robbery3
Possession Of Weapons3
Burglary2
Bicycle Theft1
Drugs1
All Crime192

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 Barrowford. 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 Barrowford

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Nelson (1.39 miles)370
Pendle Water (0.56 miles)293
Newbridge (0.62 miles)290
Little Marsden (1.24 miles)280
Lowerford192
Barrowford192
Lomeshaye (1.39 miles)103
Higherford (0.88 miles)68
Blacko (1.24 miles)7
Roughlee (0.88 miles)3

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Where are the most violent places near Barrowford?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Nelson136
Little Marsden96
Newbridge91
Pendle Water88
Lowerford58
Barrowford58
Higherford41
Lomeshaye35
Blacko1
Roughlee0

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

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 Barrowford 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 Barrowford compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Barrowford and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Barrowford is ranked #9.

#WardScore
1Waterside79
2Bradley76
3Walverden74
4Whitefield70
5Clover Hill69
6Reedley68
7Brierfield64
8Vivary Bridge60
9Barrowford29
10Blacko and Higherford22
11Old Laund Booth22

Which road in Barrowford has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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