Crime Statistics for Shawforth, Rossendale, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Shawforth in October 2024. There were a total of 72 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 Shawforth, 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	36
Anti Social Behaviour	24
Vehicle Crime	4
Public Order	4
Criminal Damage Arson	4
All Crime	72

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 Shawforth. 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 Shawforth

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bacup (2.24 miles)	137
Greave (2.24 miles)	114
Higher Hogshead (1.39 miles)	87
Shawforth	71
Belgrave (1.96 miles)	68
Millgate (0.88 miles)	59
Facit (0.88 miles)	59
Wallbank (2.24 miles)	28
Britannia (0.88 miles)	27
Ramsden Wood (1.96 miles)	14

Where are the most violent places near Shawforth?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Shawforth	36
Bacup	33
Greave	33
Millgate	29
Facit	29
Belgrave	21
Higher Hogshead	20
Wallbank	16
Ramsden Wood	14
Britannia	5

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

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 Shawforth 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 Shawforth compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Smallbridge and Firgrove	92
2	Healey	80
3	Stacksteads	78
4	Wardle and West Littleborough	73
5	Greensclough	73
6	Todmorden	71
7	Irwell	70
8	Littleborough Lakeside	68
9	Facit and Shawforth	67
10	Healey and Whitworth	54
11	Whitewell	40

Which road in Shawforth has the highest level of crime?

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