Crime Statistics for Fair Cross, London, Barking and Dagenham, 2025

Is Fair Cross rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 1369 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 Fair Cross, 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	446
Anti Social Behaviour	284
Vehicle Crime	112
Other Theft	80
Shoplifting	75
Drugs	72
Burglary	70
Public Order	60
Robbery	58
Theft From The Person	50
Criminal Damage Arson	44
Other Crime	12
Possession Of Weapons	4
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	1369

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Fair Cross	1098
Little Ilford (1.24 miles)	1046
Goodmayes (0.88 miles)	1001
Manor Park (1.86 miles)	951
Ilford (0.88 miles)	943
Barking (0.88 miles)	753
Wallend (1.75 miles)	736
Becontree (1.86 miles)	394
Dagenham (1.96 miles)	359
Castle Green (1.75 miles)	229

Where are the most violent places near Fair Cross?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Goodmayes	656
Fair Cross	446
Little Ilford	318
Ilford	257
Wallend	254
Barking	217
Manor Park	191
Becontree	124
Dagenham	103
Castle Green	75

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Fair 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 Fair 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 Fair Cross compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Fair Cross and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Fair Cross have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Thames.

#	Ward	Score
1	Thames	85
2	Ilford Town	82
3	Becontree	78
4	Goodmayes	76
5	Abbey	74
6	Eastbury	73
7	Clementswood	71
8	Gascoigne	71
9	Loxford	70
10	Mayfield	67
11	Longbridge	61

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

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