Crime Statistics for Read, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, 2024

Crime statistics for Read, Ribble Valley

There were a total of 4 street level crime incidents in Read in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Burglary.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour3
Burglary1
All Crime4

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 Read. 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 Read

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Oakenshaw (2.24 miles)142
Tottleworth (2.63 miles)123
Padiham (1.96 miles)111
Great Harwood (2.24 miles)96
Altham (1.39 miles)14
Hapton (2.63 miles)6
Calder (0.57 miles)5
Read4
Billington (2.56 miles)4
Sabden (1.96 miles)2

3.39%
of East Whalley, Read & Simonstone residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Read?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Tottleworth56
Great Harwood48
Oakenshaw47
Padiham41
Hapton2
Altham1
Billington1
Sabden1
Calder0
Read0

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

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 Read 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 Read compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Gawthorpe85
2Netherton70
3Hapton with Park69
4Milnshaw66
5Altham63
6Clayton-le-Moors57
7Sabden36
8Whalley Nethertown34
9Wiswell & Barrow29
10Whalley & Painter Wood20
11East Whalley, Read & Simonstone20

Which road in Read has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Read 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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