Council area

Blackburn with Darwen crime rate and statistics (council area)

Updated October 2026.

Police published 17,863 street-crime records for the Blackburn with Darwen council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 0.3% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 115.4 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 110.7 for Lancashire Constabulary. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.

These figures cover the whole area Blackburn with Darwen council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Blackburn with Darwen: it can take in other towns and villages, and part of a town can sit in a neighbouring council area.

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Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

17,863

Latest month (August 2026)

1,590

Year-on-year

-0.3%

Month-by-month totals

1.5k

Sep

1.6k

Oct

1.5k

Nov

1.5k

Dec

1.3k

Jan

1.2k

Feb

1.5k

Mar

1.5k

Apr

1.6k

May

1.6k

Jun

1.6k

Jul

1.6k

Aug

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	1,484
October 2025	1,581
November 2025	1,485
December 2025	1,454
January 2026	1,311
February 2026	1,232
March 2026	1,466
April 2026	1,455
May 2026	1,615
June 2026	1,566
July 2026	1,624
August 2026	1,590

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.

Blackburn with Darwen council area

115.4

Lancashire Constabulary

110.7

Residents are the Census 2021 usual residents of every postcode the ONS Postcode Directory places in this council area, added up by CrimeMapsUK from the census postcode counts. Records are assigned through the same postcodes, so both numbers cover the same ground. The total can differ slightly from the council's official population.

17,863 records and 154,818 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.

No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.

Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.

Top crime categories

Share of the Blackburn with Darwen council area's records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.

Where records cluster in the Blackburn with Darwen council area

Records by part of the Blackburn with Darwen council area: the north 10,125, the north-west 5,163, the centre 1,312, the west 621, the south 317, the south-east 253, the south-west 81, the east 56, the north-east 33.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.1 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of the Blackburn with Darwen council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Blackburn with Darwen council area's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of the Blackburn with Darwen council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore the Blackburn with Darwen council area on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for the Blackburn with Darwen council area (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year	Street-crime records
2021	19,912
2022	18,447
2023	17,135
2024	17,427
2025	18,155
2026 (part year)	11,859

Police forces

The Blackburn with Darwen council area's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Lancashire Constabulary (99.9%), Metropolitan Police (0.0%), Warwickshire Police (0.0%), Avon and Somerset Police (0.0%), Cumbria Constabulary (0.0%), Derbyshire Constabulary (0.0%), Devon and Cornwall Police (0.0%), Dyfed-Powys Police (0.0%), Northamptonshire Police (0.0%) and Northumbria Police (0.0%).

Limits to keep in mind

A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E06000008), which can differ from the place people call Blackburn with Darwen.
Published locations are approximate, and each record counts for the council area of its nearest postcode, using the council codes in the ONS Postcode Directory. Counts near the boundary are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Other sites can show a different figure for Blackburn with Darwen. These counts include anti-social behaviour, cover the 12 published months shown, and assign each record by its nearest postcode. The rate divides by Census 2021 residents of the same postcodes, not by a later mid-year population estimate.
Full detail is on the methodology page.

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CrimeMapsUK. Blackburn with Darwen council area: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/council-areas/blackburn-with-darwen/