Crime Statistics for Lowerhouse, Burnley, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lowerhouse in September 2024. There were a total of 176 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 Lowerhouse, 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	48
Anti Social Behaviour	34
Criminal Damage Arson	20
Shoplifting	18
Burglary	15
Vehicle Crime	12
Other Theft	10
Other Crime	7
Public Order	4
Bicycle Theft	4
Possession Of Weapons	2
Drugs	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	176

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 Lowerhouse. 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 Lowerhouse

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Burnley (1.24 miles)	806
Burnley Lane (2.24 miles)	731
Burnley Wood (1.96 miles)	485
Brunshaw (2.48 miles)	340
Lowerhouse	166
Padiham (1.39 miles)	134
Hapton (1.39 miles)	28
Altham (2.48 miles)	12
Lane Ends (1.75 miles)	11
Clow Bridge (2.56 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Lowerhouse?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Burnley	242
Burnley Lane	226
Brunshaw	139
Burnley Wood	127
Lowerhouse	48
Padiham	43
Hapton	15
Clow Bridge	3
Altham	2
Lane Ends	2

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

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 Lowerhouse 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 Lowerhouse compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Trinity	98
2	Gawthorpe	85
3	Gannow	83
4	Rosehill with Burnley Wood	82
5	Rosegrove with Lowerhouse	82
6	Daneshouse with Stoneyholme	77
7	Coal Clough with Deerplay	71
8	Hapton with Park	69
9	Whittlefield with Ightenhill	56
10	East Whalley, Read & Simonstone	20
11	Higham and Pendleside	3

Which road in Lowerhouse has the highest level of crime?

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