Crime Statistics for Chapels, Darwen, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Chapels in October 2024. There were a total of 462 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	165
Violent Crime	160
Criminal Damage Arson	34
Vehicle Crime	18
Public Order	17
Shoplifting	16
Other Theft	14
Other Crime	14
Burglary	12
Drugs	6
Possession Of Weapons	2
Theft From The Person	2
Robbery	2
All Crime	462

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 Chapels. 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 Chapels

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Chapels	431
Lower Darwen (1.39 miles)	428
Earcroft (0.88 miles)	162
Ewood (1.75 miles)	137
Grimshaw (0.88 miles)	84
Hoddlesden (1.39 miles)	74
Waterside (1.24 miles)	62
Blacksnape (1.76 miles)	61
Bank Fold (1.39 miles)	7
Belthorn (1.39 miles)	7

Where are the most violent places near Chapels?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Chapels	160
Lower Darwen	157
Ewood	86
Earcroft	57
Grimshaw	20
Hoddlesden	17
Blacksnape	16
Waterside	14
Bank Fold	2
Belthorn	2

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

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 Chapels 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 Chapels compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Chapels and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Chapels is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Mill Hill & Moorgate	87
2	Darwen East	84
3	Ewood	82
4	Blackburn South East	82
5	Darwen West	74
6	Darwen South	64
7	Blackburn South & Lower Darwen	61
8	Immanuel	52
9	Livesey with Pleasington	47
10	West Pennine	40
11	Helmshore	18

Which road in Chapels has the highest level of crime?

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