Crime Statistics for Higher Hogshead, Rossendale, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Higher Hogshead in October 2024. There were a total of 87 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	35
Violent Crime	20
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Vehicle Crime	4
Other Theft	4
Public Order	3
Burglary	3
Robbery	1
Shoplifting	1
All Crime	87

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 Higher Hogshead. 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 Higher Hogshead

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bacup (1.24 miles)	137
Broad Clough (1.39 miles)	135
Greave (0.88 miles)	114
Higher Hogshead	87
Shawforth (1.39 miles)	71
Belgrave (1.39 miles)	68
Millgate (1.86 miles)	59
Facit (1.86 miles)	59
Nun Hills (1.96 miles)	49
Britannia (0.62 miles)	27

Where are the most violent places near Higher Hogshead?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Broad Clough	39
Shawforth	36
Bacup	33
Greave	33
Millgate	29
Facit	29
Belgrave	21
Higher Hogshead	20
Nun Hills	13
Britannia	5

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

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 Higher Hogshead 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 Higher Hogshead compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Stacksteads	78
2	Wardle and West Littleborough	73
3	Greensclough	73
4	Todmorden	71
5	Irwell	70
6	Littleborough Lakeside	68
7	Facit and Shawforth	67
8	Hareholme	65
9	Healey and Whitworth	54
10	Whitewell	40
11	Cribden	38

Which road in Higher Hogshead has the highest level of crime?

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