Crime Statistics for Broadfield, Hyndburn, Lancashire, 2025

Is Broadfield rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 272 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 Broadfield, 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	118
Anti Social Behaviour	60
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Shoplifting	16
Other Crime	10
Vehicle Crime	10
Possession Of Weapons	10
Other Theft	10
Drugs	10
Public Order	6
Burglary	4
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	272

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 Broadfield. 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 Broadfield

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Milnshaw (1.39 miles)	447
Accrington (0.88 miles)	442
Broadfield	260
Spring Hill (0.62 miles)	249
Knuzden Brook (1.86 miles)	200
Church (1.24 miles)	190
Oakenshaw (2.48 miles)	180
Little Moor End (0.62 miles)	155
Green Haworth (0.88 miles)	32
Baxenden (1.96 miles)	16

Where are the most violent places near Broadfield?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Milnshaw	154
Accrington	141
Broadfield	118
Spring Hill	99
Knuzden Brook	90
Oakenshaw	75
Church	70
Little Moor End	63
Green Haworth	17
Baxenden	2

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

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 Broadfield 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 Broadfield compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Broadfield and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Broadfield is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Peel	91
2	Spring Hill	86
3	St Andrew's	86
4	Church	83
5	Barnfield	83
6	Central	81
7	Milnshaw	66
8	Altham	63
9	Immanuel	52
10	St Oswald's	46
11	Baxenden	33

Which road in Broadfield has the highest level of crime?

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