Crime Statistics for Newchurch, Rossendale, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Newchurch in September 2024. There were a total of 199 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 CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour60
Violent Crime54
Other Theft18
Criminal Damage Arson16
Shoplifting12
Burglary10
Vehicle Crime7
Public Order7
Other Crime6
Drugs5
Robbery4
All Crime199

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 Newchurch. 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 Newchurch

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Newchurch184
Laund (1.39 miles)152
Rake Head (1.39 miles)131
Edgeside (0.62 miles)128
New Hall Hey (1.24 miles)116
Constable Lee (0.88 miles)94
Cloughfold (0.62 miles)86
Stacksteads (1.39 miles)75
Waterfoot (0.88 miles)59
Balladen (1.39 miles)34

5.84%
of Hareholme residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Newchurch?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Edgeside62
Newchurch54
Rake Head53
Laund45
New Hall Hey36
Stacksteads29
Constable Lee26
Cloughfold21
Waterfoot20
Balladen9

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

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 Newchurch 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 Newchurch compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Stacksteads78
2Worsley75
3Greensclough73
4Irwell70
5Hareholme65
6Longholme61
7Greenfield46
8Whitewell40
9Cribden38
10Eden31
11Goodshaw15

Which road in Newchurch has the highest level of crime?

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

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