Crime Statistics for Becontree, London, Barking and Dagenham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Becontree in September 2024. There were a total of 520 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Becontree, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime165
Anti Social Behaviour68
Vehicle Crime56
Shoplifting43
Public Order42
Criminal Damage Arson28
Drugs27
Other Theft24
Burglary22
Robbery20
Other Crime11
Possession Of Weapons7
Theft From The Person5
Bicycle Theft2
All Crime520

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 Becontree. 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 Becontree

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Barking (2.55 miles)815
Ilford (2.55 miles)802
Fair Cross (1.86 miles)608
Becontree520
Dagenham (0.62 miles)431
Goodmayes (1.39 miles)384
Little Heath (1.96 miles)350
Rush Green (1.75 miles)304
Castle Green (1.39 miles)248
South Hornchurch (2.24 miles)202

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Where are the most violent places near Becontree?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Little Heath271
Ilford259
Barking225
Fair Cross192
Goodmayes168
Becontree165
Dagenham123
Rush Green102
Castle Green98
South Hornchurch71

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

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 Becontree 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 Becontree compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Becontree and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Becontree is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1Thames85
2Becontree78
3Mayesbrook77
4River76
5Valence76
6Alibon75
7Eastbury73
8Goresbrook71
9Heath68
10Village68
11Parsloes59

Which road in Becontree has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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