Crime Statistics for Hapton, Burnley, Lancashire, 2024

Crime statistics for Hapton, Burnley

There were a total of 6 street level crime incidents in Hapton 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 Hapton, 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 Crime2
Anti Social Behaviour2
Public Order1
Other Theft1
All Crime6

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 Hapton. 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 Hapton

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Burnley (2.55 miles)597
Milnshaw (2.77 miles)516
Lowerhouse (1.39 miles)169
Padiham (1.24 miles)111
Altham (1.39 miles)14
Lane Ends (0.62 miles)9
Hapton6
Calder (2.17 miles)5
Read (2.63 miles)4
Clow Bridge (2.63 miles)2

3.2%
of Hapton with Park residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Hapton?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Burnley173
Milnshaw172
Lowerhouse53
Padiham41
Lane Ends4
Hapton2
Altham1
Calder0
Read0
Clow Bridge0

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

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 Hapton 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 Hapton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hapton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Hapton is ranked #7.

#WardScore
1Peel91
2Gawthorpe85
3Gannow83
4Barnfield83
5Rosegrove with Lowerhouse82
6Central81
7Hapton with Park69
8Milnshaw66
9Huncoat52
10Baxenden33
11East Whalley, Read & Simonstone20

Which road in Hapton has the highest level of crime?

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

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