Crime Statistics for Church Clough, Pendle, Lancashire, 2025

Is Church Clough rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for February 2025. There were a total of 209 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 Church Clough, 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	73
Anti Social Behaviour	72
Criminal Damage Arson	13
Public Order	12
Burglary	9
Drugs	6
Other Crime	5
Other Theft	5
Shoplifting	5
Vehicle Crime	4
Possession Of Weapons	4
Robbery	1
All Crime	209

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Nelson (1.75 miles)	358
Newbridge (1.96 miles)	285
Pendle Water (1.3 miles)	256
Church Clough	209
Colne Edge (1.24 miles)	193
Lowerford (1.86 miles)	188
Barrowford (1.86 miles)	188
Colne (0.88 miles)	151
Higherford (1.39 miles)	88
Foulridge (1.86 miles)	37

Where are the most violent places near Church Clough?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Nelson	125
Colne	119
Newbridge	98
Pendle Water	76
Church Clough	73
Lowerford	68
Barrowford	68
Colne Edge	58
Higherford	35
Foulridge	12

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

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 Church Clough 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 Church Clough compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Church Clough and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Church Clough have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Blacko and Higherford.

#	Ward	Score
1	Waterside	79
2	Bradley	76
3	Walverden	74
4	Whitefield	70
5	Clover Hill	69
6	Marsden	68
7	Horsfield	67
8	Brierfield	64
9	Vivary Bridge	60
10	Boulsworth	25
11	Blacko and Higherford	22

Which road in Church Clough has the highest level of crime?

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