Crime Statistics for Grays, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Grays in September 2024. There were a total of 214 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Grays, 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	72
Shoplifting	28
Anti Social Behaviour	26
Public Order	24
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Other Theft	11
Drugs	9
Vehicle Crime	8
Burglary	7
Bicycle Theft	5
Robbery	4
Other Crime	3
Theft From The Person	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	214

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 Grays. 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 Grays

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Little Thurrock (1.39 miles)	519
Knockhall (2.24 miles)	444
Greenhithe (2.24 miles)	219
Grays	214
South Stifford (1.39 miles)	194
Tilbury (1.96 miles)	178
Lakeside (2.24 miles)	177
Biggin (2.48 miles)	160
North Stifford (1.96 miles)	97
Baker Street (2.78 miles)	34

Where are the most violent places near Grays?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Little Thurrock	211
Knockhall	147
Biggin	74
Grays	72
Tilbury	67
Greenhithe	53
South Stifford	50
Lakeside	44
North Stifford	24
Baker Street	14

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

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 Grays 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 Grays compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Swanscombe	86
2	Tilbury St Chads	83
3	Greenhithe & Knockhall	83
4	Grays Riverside	73
5	Tilbury Riverside and Thurrock Park	73
6	West Thurrock and South Stifford	72
7	Little Thurrock Blackshots	59
8	Grays Thurrock	54
9	Stifford Clays	50
10	Little Thurrock Rectory	47
11	South Chafford	32

Which road in Grays has the highest level of crime?

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