Darwen East
WardCentral Blackburn with Darwen. About 10,551 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 2.8 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Darwen East live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Darwen East compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Darwen East safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Darwen East at a rate of 129.4 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 109.0 per 1,000 people across Blackburn with Darwen.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 115 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Darwen East.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (603), anti-social behaviour (301) and other crime (188).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Blackburn with Darwen
These figures are published for the whole of Blackburn with Darwen, not for each ward, so they describe all of Blackburn with Darwen and not Darwen East alone. See Blackburn with Darwen
Darwen East in brief
Darwen East had 9,958 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Darwen East live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Darwen East, 90.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Darwen East, 6.2% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.