Crime Statistics for Britannia, Rossendale, Lancashire, 2024

There were a total of 31 street level crime incidents in Britannia in February 2024. 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 Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	14
Violent Crime	6
Other Theft	3
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Drugs	2
Public Order	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	31

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 Britannia. 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 Britannia

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Broad Clough (1.75 miles)	132
Bacup (1.39 miles)	130
Greave (1.39 miles)	111
Higher Hogshead (0.62 miles)	84
Belgrave (1.24 miles)	55
Nun Hills (1.86 miles)	48
Millgate (1.24 miles)	35
Facit (1.24 miles)	35
Britannia	31
Shawforth (0.88 miles)	29

Where are the most violent places near Britannia?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Broad Clough	45
Bacup	45
Greave	35
Higher Hogshead	26
Belgrave	24
Nun Hills	22
Millgate	13
Facit	13
Britannia	6
Shawforth	6

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

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 Britannia 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 Britannia compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Britannia and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Britannia is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Smallbridge and Firgrove	92
2	Healey	80
3	Stacksteads	78
4	Wardle and West Littleborough	73
5	Greensclough	73
6	Todmorden	71
7	Irwell	70
8	Littleborough Lakeside	68
9	Facit and Shawforth	67
10	Healey and Whitworth	54
11	Whitewell	40

Which road in Britannia has the highest level of crime?

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