Crime Statistics for Colne Engaine, Braintree, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Colne Engaine in September 2024. There were a total of 33 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Colne Engaine, 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	12
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Other Theft	6
Public Order	2
Burglary	2
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Other Crime	1
All Crime	33

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 Colne Engaine. 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 Colne Engaine

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Halstead (2.48 miles)	70
Colne Engaine	34
Earls Colne (1.24 miles)	22
Bunting’s Green (1.24 miles)	13
Boose’s Green (0.62 miles)	11
Chappel (2.77 miles)	1
Greenstead Green (2.23 miles)	0
Little Maplestead (3.1 miles)	0
Don Johns (1.75 miles)	0
Cripple Corner (2.48 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Colne Engaine?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Halstead	34
Colne Engaine	12
Earls Colne	11
Bunting’s Green	8
Boose’s Green	5
Chappel	0
Greenstead Green	0
Little Maplestead	0
Don Johns	0
Cripple Corner	0

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

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 Colne Engaine 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 Colne Engaine compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Colne Engaine and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Colne Engaine is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Silver End & Cressing	57
2	Bures St Mary & Nayland	49
3	Halstead Trinity	46
4	Halstead St Andrew's	34
5	Bocking Blackwater	34
6	Coggeshall	31
7	Lexden and Braiswick	29
8	Gosfield & Greenstead Green	25
9	Hedingham	19
10	Stour Valley South	13
11	The Colnes	13

Which road in Colne Engaine has the highest level of crime?

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