Crime Statistics for Earcroft, Oakdale, Lancashire, 2025

Is Earcroft rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for February 2025. There were a total of 144 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 Earcroft, 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	47
Anti Social Behaviour	32
Criminal Damage Arson	18
Shoplifting	10
Drugs	8
Vehicle Crime	7
Other Theft	6
Public Order	6
Other Crime	4
Burglary	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	144

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 Earcroft. 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 Earcroft

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Higher Croft (1.24 miles)	681
Chapels (0.88 miles)	566
Mill Hill (1.75 miles)	440
Lower Darwen (0.62 miles)	244
Ewood (0.88 miles)	175
Grimshaw (1.24 miles)	171
Earcroft	144
Waterloo (1.39 miles)	115
Belthorn (1.86 miles)	26
Tockholes (1.39 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Earcroft?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Chapels	372
Mill Hill	316
Higher Croft	253
Lower Darwen	91
Grimshaw	79
Ewood	71
Earcroft	47
Waterloo	47
Belthorn	13
Tockholes	0

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

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 Earcroft 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 Earcroft compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Earcroft and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Earcroft is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Mill Hill & Moorgate	87
2	Darwen East	84
3	Ewood	82
4	Blackburn South East	82
5	Darwen West	74
6	Wensley Fold	69
7	Darwen South	64
8	Blackburn South & Lower Darwen	61
9	Livesey with Pleasington	47
10	Brindle and Hoghton	43
11	West Pennine	40

Which road in Earcroft has the highest level of crime?

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