Crime Statistics for Lowerford, Pendle, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lowerford in August 2024. There were a total of 244 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	94
Violent Crime	60
Shoplifting	27
Other Theft	12
Other Crime	10
Criminal Damage Arson	9
Vehicle Crime	8
Public Order	6
Burglary	5
Drugs	5
Robbery	3
Possession Of Weapons	3
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	244

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 Lowerford. 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 Lowerford

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Newbridge (0.62 miles)	585
Nelson (1.39 miles)	416
Pendle Water (0.56 miles)	354
Little Marsden (1.24 miles)	276
Lowerford	244
Barrowford	192
Higherford (0.88 miles)	104
Lomeshaye (1.39 miles)	98
Roughlee (0.88 miles)	9
Blacko (1.24 miles)	7

Where are the most violent places near Lowerford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Newbridge	187
Little Marsden	143
Nelson	135
Pendle Water	91
Lowerford	60
Barrowford	58
Lomeshaye	41
Higherford	23
Blacko	1
Roughlee	0

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

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 Lowerford 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 Lowerford compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lowerford and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Lowerford is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Waterside	79
2	Bradley	76
3	Walverden	74
4	Whitefield	70
5	Clover Hill	69
6	Reedley	68
7	Brierfield	64
8	Vivary Bridge	60
9	Barrowford	29
10	Blacko and Higherford	22
11	Old Laund Booth	22

Which road in Lowerford has the highest level of crime?

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