Crime Statistics for Temple Fields, Harlow, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Temple Fields in September 2024. There were a total of 128 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 Temple Fields, 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	49
Shoplifting	18
Vehicle Crime	15
Public Order	9
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Anti Social Behaviour	8
Other Theft	6
Burglary	6
Drugs	5
Possession Of Weapons	2
Theft From The Person	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	128

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 Temple Fields. 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 Temple Fields

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Netteswell (1.39 miles)	399
Harlow (1.96 miles)	347
Little Parndon (2.24 miles)	338
Mark Hall South (1.24 miles)	243
Mark Hall North (0.62 miles)	192
Temple Fields	128
Campions (1.24 miles)	90
Churchgate Street (1.39 miles)	84
Stort (1.62 miles)	64
Lower Sheering (2.24 miles)	30

Where are the most violent places near Temple Fields?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Harlow	222
Mark Hall South	171
Netteswell	164
Little Parndon	148
Mark Hall North	80
Temple Fields	49
Campions	39
Churchgate Street	33
Stort	30
Lower Sheering	5

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

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 Temple Fields 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 Temple Fields compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Temple Fields and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Temple Fields is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Netteswell	79
2	Toddbrook	76
3	Mark Hall	70
4	Bush Fair	65
5	Harlow Common	64
6	Old Harlow	58
7	Little Parndon and Hare Street	54
8	Hunsdon	54
9	Sawbridgeworth	34
10	Much Hadham	23
11	Lower Sheering	8

Which road in Temple Fields has the highest level of crime?

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