Blackburn

England · E14001102

14,270 crimes recorded in the last 12 months – violence & sexual offences is the most common, rising versus the year before.

Recorded crimes (last 12m)
14,270
Most common
Violence & sexual offences rising
5,052 reports
Data to
Apr 2026

Crimes per month

1,392/mo peak0 baseline
May 23Apr 26

By type (last 12 months)

CategoryReportsShare
Violence & sexual offencesrising5,05235.4%
Anti-social behaviourfalling3,54824.9%
Criminal damage & arsonrising9997.0%
Shopliftingfalling8826.2%
Public orderrising8395.9%
Other theftrising7815.5%
Vehicle crimefalling6824.8%
Drugsrising4313.0%
Other crimerising3562.5%
Burglaryfalling3222.3%
Possession of weapons unchanged1411.0%
Robberyrising1260.9%
Theft from the personrising640.4%
Bicycle theftrising470.3%

The open street-level feed merges violence and sexual offences into one category. Splitting them (e.g. homicide vs sexual assault) needs ONS force-level tables, modelled to constituency in a later step.

Partial coverageSource: Street-level crime, data.police.uk (Home Office)· How we know this
Source
Street-level crime
Publisher
data.police.uk (Home Office)
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0
Retrieved
2026-09-18
How it's mapped
Aggregated from smaller areas to the constituency on a best-fit basis.

Some areas or categories are missing from this source, so treat it as partial.

Source: data.police.uk, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.