Crime Statistics for Burnley, Lancashire, 2025

Is Burnley rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 834 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, 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	216
Anti Social Behaviour	214
Shoplifting	94
Criminal Damage Arson	74
Burglary	56
Other Theft	46
Public Order	36
Other Crime	30
Vehicle Crime	22
Drugs	22
Theft From The Person	6
Bicycle Theft	6
Robbery	6
Possession Of Weapons	6
All Crime	834

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. 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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Burnley	778
Burnley Lane (1.39 miles)	365
Brunshaw (1.24 miles)	346
Brownside (1.86 miles)	249
Burnley Wood (0.88 miles)	212
Reedley (1.96 miles)	206
Lowerhouse (1.24 miles)	144
Padiham (2.55 miles)	107
Hapton (2.55 miles)	12
Walk Mill (2.24 miles)	6

Where are the most violent places near Burnley?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Burnley 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
Burnley Wood	63
Padiham	59
Lowerhouse	43
Hapton	3
Walk Mill	3

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

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 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 compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	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 has the highest level of crime?

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