Crime Statistics for Burnley Lane, Burnley, Lancashire, 2025

Is Burnley Lane rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 365 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 Burnley Lane, 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	103
Anti Social Behaviour	97
Criminal Damage Arson	33
Shoplifting	32
Burglary	18
Other Theft	17
Drugs	16
Public Order	15
Vehicle Crime	12
Other Crime	10
Robbery	6
Possession Of Weapons	4
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	365

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 Burnley Lane. 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 Burnley Lane

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Burnley (1.39 miles)	778
Burnley Lane	365
Brunshaw (1.39 miles)	346
Brownside (1.75 miles)	249
Brierfield (1.24 miles)	228
Burnley Wood (1.86 miles)	212
Reedley (0.62 miles)	206
Marsden Height (1.75 miles)	172
Harle Syke (1.39 miles)	122
Cockden (1.86 miles)	21

Where are the most violent places near Burnley Lane?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Burnley	216
Burnley Lane	103
Brunshaw	99
Reedley	82
Brownside	72
Brierfield	72
Burnley Wood	63
Marsden Height	57
Harle Syke	35
Cockden	6

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

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 Burnley Lane 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 Burnley Lane compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Burnley Lane and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Burnley Lane is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Trinity	98
2	Bank Hall	98
3	Gannow	83
4	Rosehill with Burnley Wood	82
5	Brunshaw	79
6	Queensgate	78
7	Daneshouse with Stoneyholme	77
8	Lanehead	74
9	Reedley	68
10	Whittlefield with Ightenhill	56
11	Briercliffe	44

Which road in Burnley Lane has the highest level of crime?

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