Crime Statistics for Lane Bottom, Burnley, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lane Bottom in August 2024. There were a total of 39 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 Lane Bottom, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime13
Anti Social Behaviour9
Criminal Damage Arson7
Burglary3
Other Theft3
Vehicle Crime1
Public Order1
Bicycle Theft1
Other Crime1
All Crime39

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Lane Bottom. 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 Lane Bottom

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Burnley Lane (1.96 miles)526
Nelson (1.39 miles)416
Reedley (1.86 miles)283
Little Marsden (1.75 miles)276
Brierfield (1.96 miles)245
Marsden Height (0.88 miles)231
Harle Syke (0.62 miles)167
Cockden (0.62 miles)56
Lane Bottom39
Haggate39

3.09%
of Briercliffe residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Lane Bottom?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Little Marsden143
Burnley Lane137
Nelson135
Brierfield91
Marsden Height84
Reedley81
Harle Syke43
Haggate24
Cockden20
Lane Bottom13

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

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 Lane Bottom 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 Lane Bottom compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Bank Hall98
2Brunshaw79
3Queensgate78
4Lanehead74
5Walverden74
6Whitefield70
7Clover Hill69
8Reedley68
9Brierfield64
10Briercliffe44
11Cliviger with Worsthorne22

Which road in Lane Bottom has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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