Crime Statistics for Becontree, London, Barking and Dagenham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Becontree in September 2024. There were a total of 520 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Becontree, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	165
Anti Social Behaviour	68
Vehicle Crime	56
Shoplifting	43
Public Order	42
Criminal Damage Arson	28
Drugs	27
Other Theft	24
Burglary	22
Robbery	20
Other Crime	11
Possession Of Weapons	7
Theft From The Person	5
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	520

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Becontree. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Becontree

We've taken the ten nearest places to Becontree and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Becontree has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Fair Cross (1.86 miles)	943
Ilford (2.55 miles)	931
Barking (2.55 miles)	815
Little Heath (1.96 miles)	568
Goodmayes (1.39 miles)	545
Becontree	520
Dagenham (0.62 miles)	431
Rush Green (1.75 miles)	310
Castle Green (1.39 miles)	248
South Hornchurch (2.24 miles)	245

Where are the most violent places near Becontree?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Becontree and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Fair Cross	338
Ilford	256
Barking	225
Goodmayes	222
Little Heath	198
Rush Green	197
Becontree	165
Dagenham	123
Castle Green	98
South Hornchurch	75

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Becontree?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Becontree to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Becontree compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Becontree and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Becontree is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Thames	85
2	Becontree	78
3	Mayesbrook	77
4	River	76
5	Valence	76
6	Alibon	75
7	Eastbury	73
8	Goresbrook	71
9	Heath	68
10	Village	68
11	Parsloes	59

Which road in Becontree has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Becontree with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.