Crime Statistics for Abridge, Epping Forest, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Abridge in October 2024. There were a total of 19 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Abridge, 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	5
Other Theft	3
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Burglary	3
Public Order	2
Vehicle Crime	1
Other Crime	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
All Crime	19

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 Abridge. 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 Abridge

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Grange Hill (2.78 miles)	336
Loughton (1.86 miles)	228
Chigwell Row (1.86 miles)	155
Chigwell (2.63 miles)	103
Lambourne End (1.39 miles)	29
Abridge	19
Ivy Chimneys (2.56 miles)	12
Lambourne (0.62 miles)	11
Hobbs Cross (1.96 miles)	3
Passingford Bridge (2.55 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Abridge?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Grange Hill	114
Loughton	64
Chigwell Row	54
Chigwell	50
Lambourne End	7
Abridge	5
Lambourne	5
Ivy Chimneys	3
Hobbs Cross	2
Passingford Bridge	0

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

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 Abridge 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 Abridge compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Loughton St Mary's	76
2	Loughton Fairmead	75
3	Loughton Alderton	74
4	Loughton Roding	74
5	Grange Hill	69
6	Loughton St John's	68
7	Loughton Broadway	66
8	Chigwell Village	64
9	Chigwell Row	60
10	Loughton Forest	56
11	Lambourne	53

Which road in Abridge has the highest level of crime?

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