Crime Statistics for Great Burstead, Basildon, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Great Burstead in September 2024. There were a total of 16 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Vehicle Crime	4
Violent Crime	3
Other Theft	2
Burglary	1
Theft From The Person	1
Other Crime	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Robbery	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Public Order	1
All Crime	16

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 Burstead. 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 Burstead

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pipps Hill (1.96 miles)	347
Laindon (1.96 miles)	165
Gooseberry Green (1.96 miles)	145
Billericay (1.39 miles)	57
Crays Hill (1.86 miles)	40
Great Burstead	16
Tye Common (1.39 miles)	10
Little Burstead (1.24 miles)	9
Crouch (2.59 miles)	7
Ramsden Bellhouse (2.24 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Great Burstead?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Pipps Hill	148
Gooseberry Green	135
Laindon	61
Billericay	28
Crays Hill	11
Tye Common	6
Little Burstead	5
Crouch	4
Great Burstead	3
Ramsden Bellhouse	3

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

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 Burstead 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 Burstead compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Great Burstead and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Great Burstead is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Martin's	94
2	Lee Chapel North	93
3	Crouch	65
4	South Hanningfield, Stock and Margaretting	61
5	Laindon Park	60
6	Ingatestone, Fryerning and Mountnessing	54
7	Herongate, Ingrave and West Horndon	53
8	Langdon Hills	44
9	Burstead	40
10	Billericay East	27
11	Billericay West	17

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

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