Crime Statistics for Waltham Cross, London, Enfield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Waltham Cross in August 2024. There were a total of 251 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	78
Violent Crime	76
Shoplifting	16
Other Theft	14
Public Order	13
Vehicle Crime	11
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Theft From The Person	10
Robbery	7
Drugs	6
Burglary	4
Bicycle Theft	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Other Crime	1
All Crime	251

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Waltham Cross. 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 Waltham Cross

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Freezy Water (0.88 miles)	735
Enfield Wash (1.24 miles)	423
Holdbrook (0.88 miles)	416
Enfield Lock (1.39 miles)	393
Cheshunt (1.24 miles)	274
Lea Navigation (1.55 miles)	264
Waltham Cross	251
Bulls Cross (0.88 miles)	217
New River (0.19 miles)	211
Churchgate (1.39 miles)	122

Where are the most violent places near Waltham Cross?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Freezy Water	199
Enfield Wash	122
Enfield Lock	115
Holdbrook	112
Cheshunt	88
Bulls Cross	83
Waltham Cross	76
Lea Navigation	66
New River	66
Churchgate	44

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

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 Waltham Cross 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 Waltham Cross compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Waltham Cross and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Waltham Cross is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Cheshunt South and Theobalds	73
2	Waltham Cross	72
3	Turkey Street	72
4	Enfield Highway	70
5	Waltham Abbey South West	69
6	Rosedale and Bury Green	66
7	Waltham Abbey Honey Lane	63
8	Cheshunt North	57
9	Enfield Lock	56
10	Chase	55
11	Town	40

Which road in Waltham Cross has the highest level of crime?

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