Crime Statistics for Facit, Rossendale, Lancashire, 2024

There were a total of 35 street level crime incidents in Facit in February 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 Facit, 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	13
Anti Social Behaviour	11
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Other Theft	4
Drugs	1
Shoplifting	1
All Crime	35

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 Facit. 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 Facit

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bacup (2.24 miles)	130
Higher Hogshead (1.86 miles)	84
Belgrave (1.75 miles)	55
Nun Hills (2.24 miles)	48
Millgate	35
Facit	35
Britannia (1.24 miles)	31
Shawforth (0.88 miles)	29
Wallbank (1.39 miles)	15
Broadley (1.86 miles)	12

Where are the most violent places near Facit?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bacup	45
Higher Hogshead	26
Belgrave	24
Nun Hills	22
Millgate	13
Facit	13
Wallbank	7
Britannia	6
Shawforth	6
Broadley	5

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

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 Facit 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 Facit compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Facit and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Facit is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Central Rochdale	95
2	Smallbridge and Firgrove	92
3	Spotland and Falinge	87
4	Healey	80
5	Stacksteads	78
6	Wardle and West Littleborough	73
7	Greensclough	73
8	Irwell	70
9	Facit and Shawforth	67
10	Healey and Whitworth	54
11	Whitewell	40

Which road in Facit has the highest level of crime?

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