Crime Statistics for Hook End, Brentwood, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hook End in September 2024. There were a total of 21 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 Hook End, 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	7
Vehicle Crime	7
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Drugs	1
Public Order	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	21

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 Hook End. 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 Hook End

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Crow Green (1.86 miles)	50
Tip’s Cross (0.62 miles)	37
Stondon Massey (0.62 miles)	35
Peartree Green (0.88 miles)	26
Hook End	21
Fox Hatch (0.88 miles)	19
Kelvedon Hatch (1.39 miles)	16
Hallsford Bridge (2.24 miles)	14
Blackmore (1.75 miles)	7
Bentley (2.24 miles)	5

Where are the most violent places near Hook End?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Crow Green	19
Kelvedon Hatch	12
Tip’s Cross	10
Stondon Massey	9
Peartree Green	8
Hook End	7
Hallsford Bridge	7
Fox Hatch	6
Blackmore	1
Bentley	0

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

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 Hook End 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 Hook End compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hook End and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Hook End have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Brentwood North.

#	Ward	Score
1	Brentwood North	65
2	Brentwood South	65
3	Shelley	62
4	Pilgrims Hatch	57
5	Chipping Ongar, Greensted and Marden Ash	53
6	Brentwood West	50
7	Hutton North	43
8	Shenfield	42
9	Hutton Central	32
10	Brizes and Doddinghurst	30
11	Tipps Cross	24

Which road in Hook End has the highest level of crime?

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