Crime Statistics for Lomeshaye, Pendle, Lancashire, 2025

Is Lomeshaye rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 122 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 Lomeshaye, 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	37
Anti Social Behaviour	23
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Vehicle Crime	11
Public Order	8
Other Crime	8
Other Theft	8
Burglary	7
Shoplifting	3
Possession Of Weapons	3
Robbery	2
Drugs	1
All Crime	122

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lowerford (1.39 miles)	326
Nelson (1.24 miles)	292
Newbridge (0.88 miles)	251
Little Marsden (0.62 miles)	233
Brierfield (0.62 miles)	228
Reedley (1.24 miles)	206
Marsden Height (1.39 miles)	172
Barrowford (1.39 miles)	163
Lomeshaye	100
Fence (1.24 miles)	6

Where are the most violent places near Lomeshaye?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lowerford	208
Nelson	92
Newbridge	87
Reedley	82
Brierfield	72
Little Marsden	64
Marsden Height	57
Barrowford	52
Lomeshaye	37
Fence	2

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

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 Lomeshaye 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 Lomeshaye compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lomeshaye and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Lomeshaye is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bank Hall	98
2	Queensgate	78
3	Lanehead	74
4	Walverden	74
5	Whitefield	70
6	Clover Hill	69
7	Reedley	68
8	Brierfield	64
9	Whittlefield with Ightenhill	56
10	Barrowford	29
11	Old Laund Booth	22

Which road in Lomeshaye has the highest level of crime?

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