Crime Statistics for Newbridge, Pendle, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Newbridge in October 2024. There were a total of 529 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 Newbridge, 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	186
Anti Social Behaviour	178
Criminal Damage Arson	34
Other Theft	33
Public Order	20
Shoplifting	19
Burglary	16
Vehicle Crime	15
Other Crime	11
Possession Of Weapons	8
Robbery	5
Drugs	4
All Crime	529

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pendle Water (0.88 miles)	519
Newbridge	485
Nelson (0.88 miles)	394
Lowerford (0.62 miles)	331
Marsden Height (1.39 miles)	320
Little Marsden (0.62 miles)	312
Barrowford (0.62 miles)	189
Lomeshaye (0.88 miles)	115
Higherford (1.39 miles)	96
Roughlee (1.39 miles)	12

Where are the most violent places near Newbridge?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Newbridge	186
Pendle Water	185
Marsden Height	137
Nelson	129
Little Marsden	103
Lowerford	97
Barrowford	54
Lomeshaye	45
Higherford	28
Roughlee	0

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

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 Newbridge 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 Newbridge compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Waterside	79
2	Bradley	76
3	Lanehead	74
4	Walverden	74
5	Whitefield	70
6	Clover Hill	69
7	Reedley	68
8	Brierfield	64
9	Briercliffe	44
10	Barrowford	29
11	Old Laund Booth	22

Which road in Newbridge has the highest level of crime?

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