Crime Statistics for Great Bardfield, Braintree, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Great Bardfield in September 2024. There were a total of 8 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour2
Vehicle Crime2
Other Crime1
Public Order1
Criminal Damage Arson1
Violent Crime1
All Crime8

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 Great Bardfield. 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 Great Bardfield

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Bardfield End Green (3.1 miles)9
Great Bardfield8
Finchingfield (1.39 miles)7
Bridge End (0.62 miles)7
Waltham’s Cross (1.24 miles)5
Little Bardfield (1.24 miles)1
Bustard Green (2.24 miles)0
Duck End (2.78 miles)0
Holder’s Green (2.77 miles)0
Bardfield Saling (2.56 miles)0

5.06%
of The Sampfords residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Great Bardfield?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Bardfield End Green5
Finchingfield3
Waltham’s Cross2
Great Bardfield1
Bridge End1
Little Bardfield0
Bustard Green0
Duck End0
Holder’s Green0
Bardfield Saling0

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

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 Great Bardfield 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 Great Bardfield compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Great Bardfield and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Great Bardfield is ranked #8.

#WardScore
1Bocking South59
2Bocking North52
3Great Dunmow South & Barnston33
4Great Dunmow North30
5Yeldham30
6Thaxted & the Eastons24
7Flitch Green & Little Dunmow19
8The Sampfords18
9Rayne13
10Three Fields13
11Debden & Wimbish5

Which road in Great Bardfield has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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