Crime in BB8 5

The BB8 5 postcode sector, in the BB (Blackburn) postcode area, with most records published by Lancashire Constabulary.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 184 street-crime records for BB8 5 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 13.6% fewer than in the 12 months before. Police locations are approximate.

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Last 12 published months

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

Street-crime records

184

Share of BB8

6.1%

Year-on-year

-13.6%

BB8 5 holds 6.1% of the 2,997 records assigned to BB8 in the same window.

Month-by-month totals

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	24
October 2025	11
November 2025	17
December 2025	27
January 2026	14
February 2026	16
March 2026	22
April 2026	10
May 2026	17
June 2026	5
July 2026	8
August 2026	13

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

No Census 2021 residents are recorded for these postcodes, so no rate is shown.

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	BB8 5	BB8	Force
Violence and sexual offences	44.6%	38.7%	39.1%
Anti-social behaviour	26.1%	22.1%	20.3%
Criminal damage and arson	7.1%	7.9%	7.6%
Other theft	6.5%	5.0%	5.7%
Public order	6.0%	5.6%	5.7%
Shoplifting	2.7%	5.5%	6.0%
Burglary	2.2%	5.1%	3.5%
Vehicle crime	2.2%	3.1%	4.0%

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for BB8 5 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year	Street-crime records
2021	237
2022	244
2023	205
2024	184
2025	222
2026 (part year)	105

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.
Full detail is on the methodology page and in what a postcode district crime page shows, which covers sectors too.

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CrimeMapsUK. BB8 5 postcode sector: 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/sectors/bb8-5/

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