Crime Statistics for Little Bentley, Tendring, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Little Bentley in September 2024. There was only 2 incident. See where that was on the map below.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Little Bentley, 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	2
All Crime	2

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 Little Bentley. 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 Little Bentley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Frating Green (1.75 miles)	11
Hare Green (1.39 miles)	8
Raven’s Green (0.88 miles)	6
Balls Green (1.75 miles)	6
Great Bromley (1.96 miles)	5
Goose Green (1.86 miles)	4
Tendring Heath (1.39 miles)	3
Horsley Cross (1.39 miles)	3
Tendring Green (1.86 miles)	2
Little Bentley	2

Where are the most violent places near Little Bentley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hare Green	6
Raven’s Green	5
Goose Green	4
Frating Green	3
Balls Green	3
Great Bromley	3
Little Bentley	2
Tendring Green	1
Tendring Heath	0
Horsley Cross	0

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

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 Little Bentley 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 Little Bentley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Little Bentley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Little Bentley have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is East Bergholt.

#	Ward	Score
1	Weeley & Tendring	56
2	Ardleigh & Little Bromley	51
3	The Bentleys & Frating	48
4	Brightlingsea	48
5	Thorpe, Beaumont & Great Holland	45
6	Stour Valley	45
7	Lawford, Manningtree & Mistley	40
8	Little Clacton	31
9	The Oakleys & Wix	26
10	Alresford & Elmstead	24
11	East Bergholt	16

Which road in Little Bentley has the highest level of crime?

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