Crime Statistics for Highams Park, London, Waltham Forest, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Highams Park in September 2024. There were a total of 798 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 Highams Park, 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	168
Vehicle Crime	166
Anti Social Behaviour	134
Drugs	58
Public Order	50
Other Theft	48
Criminal Damage Arson	43
Burglary	34
Shoplifting	32
Robbery	25
Theft From The Person	19
Other Crime	12
Bicycle Theft	8
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	798

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 Highams Park. 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 Highams Park

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Walthamstow (1.24 miles)	2228
Tottenham Hale (2.24 miles)	1008
Higham Hill (0.88 miles)	1006
Upper Edmonton (1.96 miles)	955
Highams Park	755
Hale End (0.62 miles)	522
Friday Hill (1.75 miles)	426
Chingford Hatch (0.88 miles)	367
South Woodford (1.96 miles)	270
Chingford Green (1.96 miles)	196

Where are the most violent places near Highams Park?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Walthamstow	816
Upper Edmonton	281
Higham Hill	255
Friday Hill	252
Tottenham Hale	209
Highams Park	168
Hale End	101
Chingford Green	86
Chingford Hatch	80
South Woodford	75

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

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 Highams Park 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 Highams Park compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Highams Park and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Highams Park is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Markhouse	79
2	Hoe Street	76
3	Larkswood	74
4	High Street	73
5	Lea Bridge	73
6	Higham Hill	72
7	Valley	69
8	Chapel End	66
9	Hale End and Highams Park	65
10	Wood Street	64
11	William Morris	61

Which road in Highams Park has the highest level of crime?

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