Crime Statistics for Boarsgreave, Rossendale, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Boarsgreave in October 2024. There were a total of 2 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Other Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Other Crime1
Anti Social Behaviour1
All Crime2

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 Boarsgreave. 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 Boarsgreave

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Newchurch (1.75 miles)163
Bacup (1.75 miles)137
Edgeside (1.39 miles)91
Belgrave (1.39 miles)68
Stacksteads (0.62 miles)60
Rake Head (0.62 miles)60
Waterfoot (0.88 miles)55
Nun Hills (0.88 miles)49
Boarsgreave2
Turn (2.24 miles)0

3.11%
of Whitewell residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Boarsgreave?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Newchurch46
Bacup33
Edgeside29
Belgrave21
Stacksteads18
Rake Head18
Waterfoot14
Nun Hills13
Boarsgreave0
Turn0

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

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 Boarsgreave 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 Boarsgreave compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Stacksteads78
2Greensclough73
3Irwell70
4Facit and Shawforth67
5Hareholme65
6Longholme61
7Healey and Whitworth54
8Ramsbottom50
9Whitewell40
10Cribden38
11Eden31

Which road in Boarsgreave has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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