Crime Statistics for Feniscowles, Chorley, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Feniscowles in September 2024. There were a total of 23 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 Feniscowles, 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	15
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Vehicle Crime	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	23

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 Feniscowles. 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 Feniscowles

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ewood (1.86 miles)	283
Mill Hill (1.39 miles)	209
Waterloo (1.24 miles)	108
Feniscliffe (0.88 miles)	77
Pleasington (0.62 miles)	48
Cherry Tree (0.62 miles)	44
Feniscowles	16
Hoghton Bottoms (1.75 miles)	7
Abbey Village (1.86 miles)	5
Tockholes (1.75 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Feniscowles?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ewood	101
Mill Hill	68
Pleasington	48
Waterloo	42
Feniscliffe	33
Cherry Tree	21
Feniscowles	15
Hoghton Bottoms	2
Abbey Village	1
Tockholes	0

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

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 Feniscowles 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 Feniscowles compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Mill Hill & Moorgate	87
2	Darwen East	84
3	Ewood	82
4	Blackburn Central	76
5	Darwen West	74
6	Wensley Fold	69
7	Blackburn South & Lower Darwen	61
8	Livesey with Pleasington	47
9	Brindle and Hoghton	43
10	Wheelton and Withnell	22
11	Coupe Green & Gregson Lane	12

Which road in Feniscowles has the highest level of crime?

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