Crime Statistics for Boarsgreave, Rossendale, Lancashire, 2024

There were a total of 2 street level crime incidents in in February 2024. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	2
All Crime	2

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Newchurch (1.75 miles)	144
Bacup (1.75 miles)	130
Edgeside (1.39 miles)	77
Belgrave (1.39 miles)	55
Waterfoot (0.88 miles)	53
Stacksteads (0.62 miles)	50
Rake Head (0.62 miles)	50
Nun Hills (0.88 miles)	38
Turn (2.24 miles)	6
Boarsgreave	2

Where are the most violent places near Boarsgreave?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bacup	45
Newchurch	40
Edgeside	26
Belgrave	24
Nun Hills	18
Stacksteads	16
Rake Head	16
Waterfoot	14
Turn	4
Boarsgreave	0

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

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 Boarsgreave 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 Boarsgreave compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Stacksteads	78
2	Greensclough	73
3	Irwell	70
4	Facit and Shawforth	67
5	Hareholme	65
6	Longholme	61
7	Healey and Whitworth	54
8	Ramsbottom	50
9	Whitewell	40
10	Cribden	38
11	Eden	31

Which road in Boarsgreave has the highest level of crime?

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