Crime Statistics for Balstonia, Stanford-le-Hope, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Balstonia in October 2024. There were a total of 158 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Balstonia, 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	45
Shoplifting	26
Public Order	18
Anti Social Behaviour	14
Criminal Damage Arson	13
Vehicle Crime	13
Drugs	10
Other Theft	8
Burglary	5
Other Crime	3
Robbery	3
All Crime	158

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 Balstonia. 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 Balstonia

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Barstable (3.34 miles)	854
Balstonia	158
Corringham (0.62 miles)	127
Great Berry (2.78 miles)	42
Langdon Hills (2.78 miles)	42
Horndon-on-the-Hill (1.86 miles)	23
Dry Street (1.86 miles)	20
Southfields (2.23 miles)	17
Bulphan (3.61 miles)	4
Great Malgraves (1.96 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Balstonia?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Barstable	717
Balstonia	45
Corringham	42
Great Berry	17
Langdon Hills	17
Dry Street	7
Southfields	4
Bulphan	3
Horndon-on-the-Hill	2
Great Malgraves	0

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

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 Balstonia 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 Balstonia compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Balstonia and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Balstonia is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Martin's	94
2	Lee Chapel North	93
3	Nethermayne	73
4	Stanford-le-Hope West	67
5	Chadwell St Mary	66
6	Laindon Park	60
7	East Tilbury	59
8	Stanford East and Corringham Town	46
9	Langdon Hills	44
10	Corringham and Fobbing	35
11	The Homesteads	29

Which road in Balstonia has the highest level of crime?

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