Crime Statistics for Broadfield, Hyndburn, Lancashire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Broadfield in October 2024. There were a total of 208 incidents. 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 Broadfield, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime76
Anti Social Behaviour53
Criminal Damage Arson21
Burglary17
Other Theft12
Vehicle Crime10
Other Crime8
Public Order5
Shoplifting3
Possession Of Weapons2
Drugs1
All Crime208

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Milnshaw (1.39 miles)554
Accrington (0.88 miles)553
Church (1.24 miles)282
Spring Hill (0.62 miles)276
Oakenshaw (2.48 miles)215
Broadfield208
Knuzden Brook (1.86 miles)169
Little Moor End (0.62 miles)107
Green Haworth (0.88 miles)30
Baxenden (1.96 miles)24

4.57%
of St Andrew's (Hyndburn) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Broadfield?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Milnshaw199
Accrington170
Spring Hill109
Church93
Broadfield76
Oakenshaw74
Knuzden Brook66
Little Moor End61
Green Haworth14
Baxenden9

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

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 Broadfield 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 Broadfield compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Broadfield and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Broadfield is ranked #3.

#WardScore
1Peel91
2Spring Hill86
3St Andrew's86
4Church83
5Barnfield83
6Central81
7Milnshaw66
8Altham63
9Immanuel52
10St Oswald's46
11Baxenden33

Which road in Broadfield has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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