Crime Statistics for Bank Hey, Blackburn, Lancashire, 2024

There were a total of 164 street level crime incidents in Bank Hey in March 2024. 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 Bank Hey, 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	66
Anti Social Behaviour	43
Vehicle Crime	13
Other Theft	11
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Other Crime	7
Public Order	6
Burglary	5
Possession Of Weapons	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	164

Map of street level crime incidents in March 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Bank Hey. 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 Bank Hey

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Brookhouse (1.39 miles)	623
Higher Audley (1.86 miles)	591
Little Harwood (0.62 miles)	415
Four Lane End (1.39 miles)	376
Revidge (1.39 miles)	376
Intack (1.39 miles)	320
Brownhill (0.62 miles)	188
Bank Hey	164
Pleckgate (1.24 miles)	109
Salesbury (1.75 miles)	11

Where are the most violent places near Bank Hey?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Brookhouse	204
Higher Audley	201
Little Harwood	124
Four Lane End	115
Revidge	115
Intack	105
Brownhill	80
Bank Hey	66
Pleckgate	45
Salesbury	4

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

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 Bank Hey 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 Bank Hey compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Blackburn South East	82
2	Blackburn Central	76
3	Audley & Queen's Park	69
4	Rishton	66
5	Little Harwood & Whitebirk	62
6	Shear Brow & Corporation Park	61
7	Bastwell & Daisyfield	54
8	Overton	53
9	Roe Lee	52
10	Billinge & Beardwood	50
11	Wilpshire & Ramsgreave	30

Which road in Bank Hey has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Bank Hey with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around St James Road.