Crime Statistics for Blackburn, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Blackburn in October 2024. There were a total of 714 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 Blackburn, 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	228
Anti Social Behaviour	213
Shoplifting	84
Criminal Damage Arson	42
Public Order	34
Other Theft	29
Other Crime	18
Vehicle Crime	17
Drugs	17
Robbery	10
Burglary	10
Theft From The Person	6
Possession Of Weapons	3
Bicycle Theft	3
All Crime	714

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 Blackburn. 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 Blackburn

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Higher Audley (0.62 miles)	1151
Intack (1.39 miles)	801
Little Harwood (1.39 miles)	768
Blackburn	714
Brookhouse (0.62 miles)	665
Higher Croft (0.62 miles)	659
Lower Darwen (1.24 miles)	428
Four Lane End (1.39 miles)	391
Mill Hill (1.39 miles)	309
Ewood (1.39 miles)	137

Where are the most violent places near Blackburn?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Intack	507
Higher Audley	360
Little Harwood	245
Blackburn	228
Higher Croft	213
Brookhouse	209
Lower Darwen	157
Four Lane End	139
Mill Hill	113
Ewood	86

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

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 Blackburn 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 Blackburn compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Mill Hill & Moorgate	87
2	Ewood	82
3	Blackburn South East	82
4	Blackburn Central	76
5	Wensley Fold	69
6	Audley & Queen's Park	69
7	Shear Brow & Corporation Park	61
8	Blackburn South & Lower Darwen	61
9	Bastwell & Daisyfield	54
10	Billinge & Beardwood	50
11	Livesey with Pleasington	47

Which road in Blackburn has the highest level of crime?

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