Crime Statistics for Marks Gate, London, Barking and Dagenham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Marks Gate in October 2024. There were a total of 176 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 Marks Gate, 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	55
Anti Social Behaviour	34
Drugs	30
Vehicle Crime	16
Other Theft	14
Public Order	7
Burglary	7
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Other Crime	3
Robbery	2
Theft From The Person	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	176

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Little Heath (1.39 miles)	1139
Aldborough Hatch (1.96 miles)	735
Rush Green (2.24 miles)	530
Gidea Park (2.48 miles)	374
Collier Row (1.24 miles)	316
Hainault (1.96 miles)	271
Fairlop (1.86 miles)	264
Marks Gate	176
Chase Cross (1.75 miles)	176
Chigwell Row (2.24 miles)	155

Where are the most violent places near Marks Gate?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Little Heath	389
Aldborough Hatch	274
Rush Green	187
Gidea Park	88
Hainault	82
Collier Row	76
Fairlop	66
Marks Gate	55
Chase Cross	55
Chigwell Row	54

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

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 Marks Gate 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 Marks Gate compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Valence	76
2	Chadwell Heath	74
3	Brooklands	70
4	Seven Kings	70
5	Heath	68
6	Whalebone	68
7	Romford Town	66
8	Mawneys	57
9	Havering Park	57
10	Chadwell	50
11	Pettits	43

Which road in Marks Gate has the highest level of crime?

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