Crime Statistics for Haslingden, Rossendale, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Haslingden in October 2024. There were a total of 85 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 Haslingden, 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	29
Anti Social Behaviour	27
Other Theft	10
Vehicle Crime	5
Public Order	4
Shoplifting	3
Other Crime	3
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Burglary	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	85

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 Haslingden. 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 Haslingden

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Laund (1.24 miles)	184
New Hall Hey (1.39 miles)	179
Lane Side (0.62 miles)	173
Cribden Side (0.88 miles)	115
Height End (0.62 miles)	106
Haslingden	85
Bent Gate (1.39 miles)	79
Reeds Holme (1.39 miles)	72
Helmshore (1.24 miles)	38
Sherfin (1.24 miles)	9

Where are the most violent places near Haslingden?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
New Hall Hey	62
Laund	60
Lane Side	57
Cribden Side	46
Height End	38
Haslingden	29
Reeds Holme	28
Bent Gate	22
Helmshore	7
Sherfin	2

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

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 Haslingden 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 Haslingden compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Haslingden and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Haslingden is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Spring Hill	86
2	Worsley	75
3	Hareholme	65
4	Longholme	61
5	Immanuel	52
6	Greenfield	46
7	Cribden	38
8	Baxenden	33
9	Eden	31
10	Helmshore	18
11	Goodshaw	15

Which road in Haslingden has the highest level of crime?

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