Crime by postcode

Enter a postcode in England or Wales to see the crimes Police.uk records within a mile of it: the latest month by kind, and each of the last 12 months. Counts, not ratings.

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Your answer for BB2 1DY

Police.uk records 527 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of BB2 1DY in August 2026, the latest month it has published.

Violence and sexual offences198 reports
Anti-social behaviour97 reports
Public order55 reports
Criminal damage and arson47 reports
Shoplifting29 reports
Vehicle crime26 reports

Also: drugs 24, other theft 16, other crime 13, possession of weapons 8, burglary 7, robbery 7.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 542 September 2025
  2. 589 October 2025
  3. 522 November 2025
  4. 470 December 2025
  5. 428 January 2026
  6. 380 February 2026
  7. 505 March 2026
  8. 506 April 2026
  9. 520 May 2026
  10. 525 June 2026
  11. 576 July 2026
  12. 527 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences2,152 reports
Anti-social behaviour1,319 reports
Public order475 reports
Shoplifting467 reports
Criminal damage and arson392 reports
Other theft326 reports
Vehicle crime254 reports
Drugs251 reports

Also: other crime 144, burglary 126, possession of weapons 70, robbery 61, theft from the person 32, bicycle theft 21.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile each way is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

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Everything about BB2 1DY Crime in Blackburn The BB2 postcode district Blackburn with Darwen council

How we work this out

We use data.police.uk's own monthly download, the police's open data, which police.uk last published on 30 September 2026. We count every crime and report of anti-social behaviour it places within one mile of the postcode's centre point, by the kinds police.uk uses: for the latest month and each of the 12 latest months. The download says which forces published each month, so where the local force has not published police.uk's latest months, we show its own latest 12 and say so, rather than count those months as quiet.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none.

We give counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through a circle two miles across, a mile each way, so a figure per 1,000 people would be a guess. And we do not say whether an area is safe: the figures are there to read.

Why are the figures high for a town centre?

The counts cover a circle two miles across, a mile each way from the postcode's centre. Near a town centre that takes in its shops, pubs and station, where many crimes are recorded, and the counts are for the whole circle, not one street. Shoplifting is recorded where the shop is.

Does this cover Scotland?

No. Police Scotland publishes its own figures; police.uk covers England, Wales and Northern Ireland; this site covers England and Wales.

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Source: police.uk, from its download of 30 September 2026, figures to August 2026.

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