Crime Statistics for Walk Mill, Burnley, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Walk Mill in September 2024. There were a total of 5 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	5

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 Walk Mill. 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 Walk Mill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Burnley (2.24 miles)	806
Burnley Lane (2.78 miles)	731
Burnley Wood (1.39 miles)	485
Brunshaw (1.39 miles)	340
Harle Syke (3.11 miles)	169
Brownside (1.24 miles)	132
Cockden (2.56 miles)	62
Portsmouth (3.1 miles)	19
Walk Mill	5
Clow Bridge (2.77 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Walk Mill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Burnley	242
Burnley Lane	226
Brunshaw	139
Burnley Wood	127
Harle Syke	54
Brownside	43
Cockden	32
Portsmouth	6
Clow Bridge	3
Walk Mill	0

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

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 Walk Mill 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 Walk Mill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Trinity	98
2	Bank Hall	98
3	Gannow	83
4	Rosehill with Burnley Wood	82
5	Brunshaw	79
6	Queensgate	78
7	Daneshouse with Stoneyholme	77
8	Lanehead	74
9	Coal Clough with Deerplay	71
10	Briercliffe	44
11	Cliviger with Worsthorne	22

Which road in Walk Mill has the highest level of crime?

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