Crime Statistics for Blacksnape, Darwen, Lancashire, June 2023

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There were a total of 63 street level crime incidents in Blacksnape in June 2023. 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 CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour13
Violent Crime13
Other Theft12
Vehicle Crime12
Burglary6
Criminal Damage Arson4
Public Order1
Shoplifting1
Other Crime1
All Crime63

Map of street level crime incidents in June 2023

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Blacksnape. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Blacksnape

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Chapels (1.76 miles)304
Lower Darwen (3.1 miles)219
Earcroft (2.63 miles)163
Grimshaw (1.96 miles)118
Hoddlesden (0.62 miles)93
Waterside (1.24 miles)68
Blacksnape63
Belthorn (1.86 miles)11
Bank Fold (1.86 miles)11
Tockholes (3.34 miles)0

14.7%
of Blackburn with Darwen residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2011 Census



Where are the most violent places near Blacksnape?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Chapels92
Lower Darwen63
Earcroft47
Grimshaw43
Hoddlesden29
Waterside22
Blacksnape13
Belthorn3
Bank Fold3
Tockholes0

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

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 Blacksnape 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 Blacksnape compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Darwen East84
2Ewood82
3Blackburn South East82
4Worsley75
5Darwen West74
6Darwen South64
7Blackburn South & Lower Darwen61
8Immanuel52
9St Oswald's46
10West Pennine40
11Helmshore18

Which road in Blacksnape has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Blacksnape with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around M65.

Last updated: June 2023
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0



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