Crime Statistics for Chingford Green, London, Waltham Forest, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Chingford Green in September 2024. There were a total of 285 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 Chingford Green, 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	86
Anti Social Behaviour	47
Vehicle Crime	46
Other Theft	23
Criminal Damage Arson	18
Drugs	18
Public Order	17
Burglary	10
Theft From The Person	6
Shoplifting	6
Robbery	4
Other Crime	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	285

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 Chingford Green. 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 Chingford Green

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ponders End (1.96 miles)	760
Highams Park (1.96 miles)	755
Hale End (1.86 miles)	522
Friday Hill (0.88 miles)	426
Chingford Hatch (1.24 miles)	367
Chingford Green	196
Chingford (0.62 miles)	186
Buckhurst Hill (1.96 miles)	150
Lippitts Hill (1.39 miles)	46
High Beach (2.24 miles)	17

Where are the most violent places near Chingford Green?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Friday Hill	252
Highams Park	168
Ponders End	166
Hale End	101
Chingford Green	86
Chingford Hatch	80
Chingford	75
Buckhurst Hill	49
Lippitts Hill	13
High Beach	6

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

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 Chingford Green 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 Chingford Green compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Larkswood	74
2	Ponders End	74
3	Higham Hill	72
4	Lower Edmonton	70
5	Valley	69
6	Buckhurst Hill East	62
7	Hatch Lane	60
8	Chingford Green	59
9	Buckhurst Hill West	55
10	Endlebury	55
11	Monkhams	47

Which road in Chingford Green has the highest level of crime?

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