Crime Statistics for Barling, Rochford, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Barling in October 2024. There were a total of 11 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Barling, 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	7
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Other Theft	1
Burglary	1
Public Order	1
All Crime	11

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 Barling. 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 Barling

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bournes Green (2.24 miles)	116
North Shoebury (1.96 miles)	98
Great Wakering (1.39 miles)	69
Stonebridge (1.39 miles)	68
Samuel’s Corner (1.75 miles)	38
Little Wakering (0.62 miles)	25
Barling	11
Great Stambridge (2.24 miles)	5
Paglesham Churchend (2.56 miles)	0
Paglesham Eastend (1.96 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Barling?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bournes Green	60
North Shoebury	54
Great Wakering	43
Samuel’s Corner	34
Stonebridge	29
Little Wakering	19
Barling	7
Great Stambridge	1
Paglesham Churchend	0
Paglesham Eastend	0

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

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 Barling 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 Barling compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Barling and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Barling is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Milton	91
2	Kursaal	90
3	Victoria	83
4	Roche South	66
5	St. Luke's	64
6	Shoeburyness	64
7	Roche North and Rural	56
8	Southchurch	56
9	West Shoebury	50
10	Thorpe	49
11	Foulness and The Wakerings	33

Which road in Barling has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Barling with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Smither's Chase.