Crime Statistics for Spring Hill, Hyndburn, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Spring Hill in October 2024. There were a total of 347 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 Spring Hill, 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	120
Anti Social Behaviour	90
Criminal Damage Arson	29
Burglary	24
Other Theft	22
Vehicle Crime	17
Public Order	12
Drugs	10
Shoplifting	10
Other Crime	10
Possession Of Weapons	3
All Crime	347

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 Spring Hill. 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 Spring Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Milnshaw (0.88 miles)	851
Accrington (0.62 miles)	553
Spring Hill	331
Church (0.62 miles)	282
Oakenshaw (1.86 miles)	230
Knuzden Brook (1.96 miles)	214
Tottleworth (1.96 miles)	208
Broadfield (0.62 miles)	208
Little Moor End (0.88 miles)	175
Green Haworth (1.39 miles)	27

Where are the most violent places near Spring Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Milnshaw	318
Accrington	170
Spring Hill	120
Church	93
Oakenshaw	93
Tottleworth	77
Broadfield	76
Little Moor End	73
Knuzden Brook	71
Green Haworth	10

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

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 Spring Hill 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 Spring Hill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Spring Hill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Spring Hill is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Peel	91
2	Spring Hill	86
3	St Andrew's	86
4	Church	83
5	Barnfield	83
6	Central	81
7	Milnshaw	66
8	Altham	63
9	Clayton-le-Moors	57
10	St Oswald's	46
11	Baxenden	33

Which road in Spring Hill has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Spring Hill with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around South Shore Street.