Crime Statistics for Burnley Wood, Burnley, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Burnley Wood in September 2024. There were a total of 495 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 Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	144
Violent Crime	127
Shoplifting	42
Criminal Damage Arson	40
Other Theft	38
Public Order	30
Vehicle Crime	20
Drugs	20
Burglary	18
Other Crime	12
Robbery	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	495

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 Burnley Wood. 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 Wood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Burnley (0.88 miles)	806
Burnley Lane (1.86 miles)	731
Burnley Wood	485
Reedley (2.48 miles)	350
Brunshaw (0.88 miles)	340
Lowerhouse (1.96 miles)	166
Brownside (1.39 miles)	132
Cockden (2.63 miles)	62
Walk Mill (1.39 miles)	5
Clow Bridge (2.24 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Burnley Wood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Burnley	242
Burnley Lane	226
Reedley	149
Brunshaw	139
Burnley Wood	127
Lowerhouse	48
Brownside	43
Cockden	32
Clow Bridge	3
Walk Mill	0

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

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 Wood 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 Wood compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Trinity	98
2	Bank Hall	98
3	Gannow	83
4	Rosehill with Burnley Wood	82
5	Rosegrove with Lowerhouse	82
6	Brunshaw	79
7	Queensgate	78
8	Daneshouse with Stoneyholme	77
9	Coal Clough with Deerplay	71
10	Hapton with Park	69
11	Whittlefield with Ightenhill	56

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

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