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Crime in BB12 8
The BB12 8 postcode sector, in the BB (Blackburn) postcode area, with most records published by Lancashire Constabulary.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 1,102 street-crime records for BB12 8 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 8.4% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 134.4 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.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
1,102
Share of BB12
29.3%
Year-on-year
+8.4%
BB12 8 holds 29.3% of the 3,761 records assigned to BB12 in the same window.
Month-by-month totals
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
76
October 2025
96
November 2025
81
December 2025
88
January 2026
68
February 2026
90
March 2026
81
April 2026
97
May 2026
101
June 2026
115
July 2026
104
August 2026
105
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.
BB12 8
134.4
Lancashire Constabulary
110.7
1,102 records and 8,202 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.
Category mix compared
Each column is a share of that area's own records in the same window, so areas of different sizes compare fairly. Force: Lancashire Constabulary.
Category
BB12 8
BB12
Force
Violence and sexual offences
39.3%
39.9%
39.1%
Anti-social behaviour
23.1%
20.8%
20.3%
Criminal damage and arson
8.3%
8.7%
7.6%
Public order
6.1%
5.5%
5.7%
Burglary
5.5%
6.9%
3.5%
Other theft
4.3%
4.6%
5.7%
Shoplifting
3.7%
2.4%
6.0%
Vehicle crime
3.6%
4.4%
4.0%
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for BB12 8 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
963
2022
1,167
2023
1,030
2024
1,042
2025
1,033
2026 (part year)
761
Limits to keep in mind
Published locations are approximate; they are snapped to anonymous map points before release, and each record is assigned to a sector by its nearest postcode. A sector is small, so counts near its edges are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Covers 100.0% of the 8,202 Census 2021 residents of BB12 8.
England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in England, 47.2% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 15.9% in the least deprived 20%.
27%1
20%2
37%3
0%4
0%5
0%6
0%7
0%8
16%9
0%10
Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas.
Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.
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