Crime Statistics for Pendle Water, Pendle, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Pendle Water in October 2024. There were a total of 556 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	210
Violent Crime	185
Other Theft	42
Criminal Damage Arson	33
Shoplifting	23
Public Order	19
Other Crime	12
Burglary	12
Possession Of Weapons	8
Robbery	6
Vehicle Crime	4
Drugs	2
All Crime	556

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 Pendle Water. 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 Pendle Water

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pendle Water	519
Newbridge (0.88 miles)	485
Nelson (1.31 miles)	394
Lowerford (0.56 miles)	331
Little Marsden (1.42 miles)	312
Church Clough (1.3 miles)	191
Barrowford (0.56 miles)	189
Higherford (0.56 miles)	96
Roughlee (1.3 miles)	12
Blacko (1.3 miles)	9

Where are the most violent places near Pendle Water?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Newbridge	186
Pendle Water	185
Nelson	129
Little Marsden	103
Lowerford	97
Church Clough	55
Barrowford	54
Higherford	28
Blacko	4
Roughlee	0

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

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 Pendle Water 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 Pendle Water compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Pendle Water and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Pendle Water is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Waterside	79
2	Bradley	76
3	Walverden	74
4	Whitefield	70
5	Clover Hill	69
6	Reedley	68
7	Horsfield	67
8	Brierfield	64
9	Vivary Bridge	60
10	Barrowford	29
11	Blacko and Higherford	22

Which road in Pendle Water has the highest level of crime?

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