Crime Statistics for Ewood, Oakdale, Lancashire, 2024

Crime statistics for Ewood, Oakdale

There were a total of 136 street level crime incidents in Ewood in January 2024. 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 Ewood, 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 Crime59
Anti Social Behaviour28
Criminal Damage Arson8
Shoplifting8
Other Theft8
Vehicle Crime7
Public Order5
Burglary4
Drugs3
Other Crime2
Possession Of Weapons2
Robbery1
Theft From The Person1
All Crime136

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Ewood. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Ewood

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Blackburn (1.39 miles)636
Higher Croft (0.88 miles)410
Lower Darwen (0.62 miles)206
Mill Hill (0.88 miles)168
Ewood136
Earcroft (0.88 miles)120
Waterloo (0.62 miles)89
Feniscliffe (1.39 miles)54
Cherry Tree (1.24 miles)30
Tockholes (1.39 miles)2

9.78%
of Darwen East residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Ewood?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Blackburn205
Higher Croft148
Lower Darwen79
Mill Hill71
Ewood59
Earcroft47
Waterloo41
Feniscliffe22
Cherry Tree10
Tockholes1

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

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 Ewood 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 Ewood compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Mill Hill & Moorgate87
2Darwen East84
3Ewood82
4Blackburn Central76
5Darwen West74
6Wensley Fold69
7Shear Brow & Corporation Park61
8Blackburn South & Lower Darwen61
9Livesey with Pleasington47
10Brindle and Hoghton43
11West Pennine40

Which road in Ewood has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
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