Crime Statistics for Churchgate Street, Harlow, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Churchgate Street in September 2024. There were a total of 84 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Churchgate Street, 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	33
Vehicle Crime	10
Anti Social Behaviour	7
Public Order	7
Other Theft	6
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Other Crime	4
Burglary	4
Shoplifting	3
Drugs	3
Possession Of Weapons	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	84

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 Churchgate Street. 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 Churchgate Street

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Mark Hall South (1.39 miles)	243
Mark Hall North (1.24 miles)	192
Temple Fields (1.39 miles)	128
Campions (0.62 miles)	90
Churchgate Street	84
Stort (1.5 miles)	64
Foster Street (1.86 miles)	55
Hobbs Cross (0.88 miles)	19
Sheering (1.75 miles)	11
Matching Tye (1.86 miles)	8

Where are the most violent places near Churchgate Street?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Mark Hall South	171
Mark Hall North	80
Temple Fields	49
Campions	39
Foster Street	37
Churchgate Street	33
Stort	30
Hobbs Cross	12
Sheering	1
Matching Tye	1

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

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 Churchgate Street 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 Churchgate Street compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Churchgate Street and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Churchgate Street is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Netteswell	79
2	Mark Hall	70
3	Bush Fair	65
4	Harlow Common	64
5	Old Harlow	58
6	Hastingwood, Matching and Sheering Village	55
7	Hunsdon	54
8	Sawbridgeworth	34
9	Much Hadham	23
10	Church Langley	19
11	Lower Sheering	8

Which road in Churchgate Street has the highest level of crime?

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