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 3JG

Police.uk records 559 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of BB2 3JG in August 2026, the latest month it has published.

Violence and sexual offences213 reports
Anti-social behaviour99 reports
Public order65 reports
Shoplifting42 reports
Criminal damage and arson31 reports
Other theft27 reports

Also: drugs 21, vehicle crime 20, other crime 14, burglary 9, robbery 7, possession of weapons 6, theft from the person 5.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 530 September 2025
  2. 557 October 2025
  3. 548 November 2025
  4. 531 December 2025
  5. 474 January 2026
  6. 448 February 2026
  7. 475 March 2026
  8. 470 April 2026
  9. 522 May 2026
  10. 531 June 2026
  11. 563 July 2026
  12. 559 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences2,360 reports
Anti-social behaviour1,206 reports
Public order525 reports
Shoplifting498 reports
Criminal damage and arson405 reports
Other theft354 reports
Drugs232 reports
Vehicle crime178 reports

Also: other crime 154, burglary 121, possession of weapons 77, robbery 51, theft from the person 28, bicycle theft 19.

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 3JG 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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