Little Harwood & Whitebirk · Blackburn with Darwen
Little Harwood & Whitebirk: your neighbourhood
Little Harwood & Whitebirk electoral ward · May 2026 boundaries. Every figure carries its own date.
What stands out here?
People aged 16+ with no qualifications: 30.1% here, compared with 24.2% across Blackburn with Darwen (5.9 percentage points higher).
Formal qualifications are only one part of someone's skills. Training decisions also need current vacancies, employment and residents' experience.
21 March 2021 · ward and council use the same source, measure and date.
Why this comparison is valid
The difference is in percentage points. The wider figure is the published council total, not the average of its wards. Differences describe groups, not every resident.
Homes rented from a council or housing association: 24% here, compared with 19% across Blackburn with Darwen (5.6 percentage points higher).
The share of social housing describes the homes already here. It does not show the current waiting list or whether enough suitable homes are available.
21 March 2021 · ward and council use the same source, measure and date.
Why this comparison is valid
The difference is in percentage points. The wider figure is the published council total, not the average of its wards. Differences describe groups, not every resident.
People aged 16+ with a degree or equivalent: 22.2% here, compared with 26.8% across Blackburn with Darwen (4.7 percentage points lower).
Qualifications show local skills, not whether people have secure jobs or use those skills at work.
21 March 2021 · ward and council use the same source, measure and date.
Why this comparison is valid
The difference is in percentage points. The wider figure is the published council total, not the average of its wards. Differences describe groups, not every resident.
21 March 2021, residents aged 16 and over. Includes full-time students in the corresponding work/unemployment categories. Not a current labour-market estimate or the usual 16–64 employment rate. Census took place during the coronavirus pandemic; furlough and lockdown affected answers. Ward counts sum complete official output-area best-fit membership; privacy adjustment can make totals differ slightly.
21 March 2021, residents aged 16 and over. Includes full-time students in the corresponding work/unemployment categories. Not a current labour-market estimate or the usual 16–64 employment rate. Census took place during the coronavirus pandemic; furlough and lockdown affected answers. Ward counts sum complete official output-area best-fit membership; privacy adjustment can make totals differ slightly.
Residents aged 16+ not working because of long-term illness or disability
6.8%
21 March 2021 · Little Harwood & Whitebirk
Show the workings
21 March 2021, residents aged 16 and over. Includes full-time students in the corresponding work/unemployment categories. Not a current labour-market estimate or the usual 16–64 employment rate. Census took place during the coronavirus pandemic; furlough and lockdown affected answers. Ward counts sum complete official output-area best-fit membership; privacy adjustment can make totals differ slightly.
21 March 2021, residents aged 16 and over. Includes full-time students in the corresponding work/unemployment categories. Not a current labour-market estimate or the usual 16–64 employment rate. Census took place during the coronavirus pandemic; furlough and lockdown affected answers. Ward counts sum complete official output-area best-fit membership; privacy adjustment can make totals differ slightly.
21 March 2021, residents aged 16 and over. Includes full-time students in the corresponding work/unemployment categories. Not a current labour-market estimate or the usual 16–64 employment rate. Census took place during the coronavirus pandemic; furlough and lockdown affected answers. Ward counts sum complete official output-area best-fit membership; privacy adjustment can make totals differ slightly. Unemployed residents as a share of all residents aged 16+; this is not the unemployment rate among economically active people.
Police-recorded locations for Little Harwood & Whitebirk ward. Locations are approximate; these are not all crimes or a measure of personal risk.
804 mapped crimes
September 2025 to August 2026. Compared with 779 in the previous 12 months. Anti-social behaviour is counted separately.
Mapped crime over time
September 2024 to August 2026
Little Harwood & Whitebirk ward · mapped crimes
Reviewed figures: September 2024 to August 2026. This reviewed record covers fewer than 30 years, so the chart opens on all of it.
Shown on this chart: 71 mapped crimes in September 2024; 78 mapped crimes in August 2026. These are recorded counts; check the coverage notes before comparing periods.
275787
September 2024August 2026
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Monthly crime and anti-social behaviour
Recorded locations by month · Little Harwood & Whitebirk
Month
Mapped crime
Anti-social behaviour
September 2024
71
24
October 2024
69
30
November 2024
58
20
December 2024
33
10
January 2025
51
13
February 2025
69
29
March 2025
69
15
April 2025
54
21
May 2025
83
29
June 2025
72
18
July 2025
69
40
August 2025
81
39
September 2025
59
19
October 2025
55
30
November 2025
67
21
December 2025
61
24
January 2026
56
5
February 2026
71
7
March 2026
70
12
April 2026
60
10
May 2026
77
12
June 2026
72
10
July 2026
78
20
August 2026
78
14
Crime categories in the latest complete year
September 2025 to August 2026 · Little Harwood & Whitebirk
Category
Mapped crimes
violent crime
417
criminal damage arson
80
vehicle crime
65
public order
57
drugs
44
other theft
43
shoplifting
34
other crime
27
burglary
21
possession of weapons
12
theft from the person
2
robbery
2
What these numbers include
Approximate published locations, not every crime or personal risk.
Anti-social behaviour is separate. Transport police and unusable locations excluded.
An empty ward count means no mapped rows in the complete required force files; it does not prove that no crime occurred.
These are retrieved mapped records, not a guarantee of complete crime reporting. Approximate locations and unmapped incidents limit comparisons.
Missing ward-months invalidate totals and changes. Busy centres attract visitors, so residential population is not a measure of the number of people exposed.
