Crime in Hyndburn: statistics, rates and trends

Violence and sexual offences (4,170), anti-social behaviour (2,214) and criminal damage and arson (763) made up 67% of all recorded crime. Its crime rate ranks 43rd of the 302 districts covered by this site (1 = highest), in the highest quarter.

The year to August 2026 had the least recorded crime in Hyndburn of any year here (10,693 crimes). Between the years to August 2018 and 2026 it fell 18%, while across England and Wales it fell 4%.

Month by month

Compared with England and Wales, Hyndburn recorded notably more anti-social behaviour (67% above the national rate), vehicle crime (57% above the national rate) and violence and sexual offences (42% above the national rate), and notably less bicycle theft (68% below) and theft from the person (67% below). On the year before, theft from the person rose from 28 to 48 and vehicle crime rose from 539 to 673, while bicycle theft fell from 37 to 23 and anti-social behaviour fell from 3,503 to 2,214.

What each category covers: crime categories.

8,345 crimes, excluding fraud, were recorded by the police in Hyndburn in the year ending March 2026, according to the Home Office's police recorded crime statistics. That is 97.0 per 1,000 residents, higher than the England and Wales rate of 83.2. The total was almost unchanged on the year ending March 2025 (8,322), against a fall of 2% across England and Wales. Among the 272 districts of England and Wales with a figure for that year, Hyndburn had the 53rd highest rate (the street-level ranking above is among the 302 districts with street-level pages on this site, over the 12 months to August 2026).

Of the crimes recorded in the Lancashire Police area in the year ending March 2026, 2.0% were not assigned to a district. Those crimes are counted in the force and England and Wales totals but in no district, so the figure for Hyndburn is an undercount.

Offences recorded in Hyndburn, the year ending March 2026

The largest category was violence without injury, with 1,409 offences (17% of the total). Relative to England and Wales, rates were highest for vehicle offences (1.6 times the national rate), violence with injury (1.5 times the national rate) and non-residential burglary (1.5 times the national rate). Rates were lowest relative to the national rate for theft from the person (0.22 times), trafficking of drugs (0.45 times) and bicycle theft (0.52 times).

The largest rises on the year were in theft from the person (+36%) and vehicle offences (+31%). The largest falls were in non-residential burglary (−24%) and robbery of personal property (−19%). Robbery of business property and shoplifting are not compared with the year ending March 2025: from April 2025 the Home Office Counting Rules were clarified so that a theft from a shop in which violence is used or threatened against staff or anyone else is recorded as robbery of business property rather than shoplifting (ONS).

Recorded crime in Hyndburn since the year ending March 2019

The chart shows police recorded crime per 1,000 residents in each year ending March from 2019 to 2026. Hyndburn's rate was above the England and Wales rate in every one of those 8 years. The series starts in the year ending March 2019 because the share of crimes in the Lancashire Police area not assigned to a district moved from 0.5% in the year ending March 2018 to 1.7% in the year ending March 2019, which changes district totals without any change in crime.

Changes in how forces record crime move these figures as well as changes in crime (methodology).

Districts in the Lancashire Police area, the year ending March 2026

Of the 14 districts in the Lancashire Police area with a figure for the year ending March 2026, Hyndburn had the 4th highest rate.

Source: Home Office police recorded crime and outcomes open data tables (released 23 July 2026), gov.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Financial years, excluding fraud; how they differ from the street-level figures: methodology.

2 of the 8 nearest districts have a higher crime rate than Hyndburn; the highest is Burnley district (141.4 per 1,000) and the lowest Ribble Valley (50.3).

Of the 22 areas within Hyndburn, Barnfield had the highest crime rate (244.0 per 1,000) and Baxenden the lowest (45.3), 5 times apart.

The 10 locations below account for 17% of the crime recorded in Hyndburn over the 12 months to August 2026; the most were recorded at “Parking Area” (386).

Of the 8,479 crimes in Hyndburn with a recorded outcome, 29% ended with the investigation complete and no suspect identified, against 35% across England and Wales; 4.3% were awaiting a court outcome (England and Wales: 5.2%). The 2,214 anti-social behaviour reports have no outcome and are left out.

Hyndburn has an estimated population of 86,058 (ONS, mid-2024). Compared with England and Wales it has fewer residents with Level 4 qualifications or above (25%, against 34%), more residents with no qualifications (23%, against 18%) and less social housing (14%, against 17%). On the England IoD 2025, the small areas (LSOAs) that make up Hyndburn average decile 3.3 (1 = most deprived), more deprived than average.

Police-recorded crime from data.police.uk (September 2017 to August 2026), ONS population estimates and Census 2021. Definitions and limitations: methodology.