Crime Statistics for Hornchurch, London, Havering, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hornchurch in September 2024. There were a total of 409 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 Hornchurch, 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	119
Shoplifting	80
Anti Social Behaviour	61
Vehicle Crime	48
Other Theft	24
Public Order	22
Drugs	16
Criminal Damage Arson	14
Robbery	9
Burglary	8
Other Crime	6
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	409

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 Hornchurch. 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 Hornchurch

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Heath Park (1.39 miles)	554
Hornchurch	373
Rush Green (1.96 miles)	310
Ardleigh Green (1.86 miles)	253
South Hornchurch (2.24 miles)	245
Emerson Park (1.39 miles)	153
Upminster (1.96 miles)	116
Cranham (2.55 miles)	100
Corbets Tey (1.39 miles)	46
Hacton (1.39 miles)	26

Where are the most violent places near Hornchurch?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Rush Green	197
Heath Park	187
Hornchurch	119
Ardleigh Green	111
South Hornchurch	75
Emerson Park	48
Upminster	22
Cranham	21
Corbets Tey	10
Hacton	5

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

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 Hornchurch 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 Hornchurch compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	South Hornchurch	68
2	Village	68
3	Eastbrook	58
4	Elm Park	52
5	St Andrew's	47
6	Hylands	47
7	Squirrel's Heath	43
8	Upminster	41
9	Cranham	31
10	Hacton	28
11	Emerson Park	28

Which road in Hornchurch has the highest level of crime?

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