Crime Statistics for Higherford, Pendle, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Higherford in September 2024. There were a total of 93 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 Higherford, 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	41
Anti Social Behaviour	27
Vehicle Crime	7
Shoplifting	5
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Public Order	3
Burglary	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Other Crime	1
All Crime	93

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 Higherford. 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 Higherford

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pendle Water (0.56 miles)	293
Newbridge (1.39 miles)	290
Church Clough (1.39 miles)	261
Lowerford (0.88 miles)	192
Barrowford (0.88 miles)	192
Colne Edge (1.39 miles)	166
Higherford	68
Foulridge (1.75 miles)	36
Blacko (0.88 miles)	7
Roughlee (1.24 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Higherford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Church Clough	124
Newbridge	91
Pendle Water	88
Lowerford	58
Barrowford	58
Colne Edge	56
Higherford	41
Foulridge	15
Blacko	1
Roughlee	0

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

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 Higherford 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 Higherford compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Higherford and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Higherford is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Waterside	79
2	Bradley	76
3	Walverden	74
4	Whitefield	70
5	Clover Hill	69
6	Horsfield	67
7	Brierfield	64
8	Vivary Bridge	60
9	Barrowford	29
10	Blacko and Higherford	22

Which road in Higherford has the highest level of crime?

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