Crime Statistics for Bath Side, Tendring, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bath Side in September 2024. There were a total of 125 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 Bath Side, 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	63
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Anti Social Behaviour	12
Public Order	10
Vehicle Crime	8
Shoplifting	6
Bicycle Theft	4
Other Theft	2
Other Crime	2
Drugs	2
All Crime	125

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Harwich (1.39 miles)	121
Dovercourt (0.99 miles)	114
Bath Side	103
Walton (2.58 miles)	100
Felixstowe (2.71 miles)	90
Parkeston (1.71 miles)	90
Tower Hill (0.32 miles)	71
Upper Dovercourt (2.26 miles)	51
Shotley Gate (1.12 miles)	48
Shotley (2.32 miles)	5

Where are the most violent places near Bath Side?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bath Side	63
Harwich	49
Dovercourt	48
Walton	42
Felixstowe	41
Tower Hill	38
Parkeston	36
Upper Dovercourt	23
Shotley Gate	18
Shotley	2

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

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 Bath Side 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 Bath Side compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Harwich & Kingsway	91
2	Dovercourt Bay	73
3	Dovercourt All Saints	63
4	Dovercourt Vines & Parkeston	60
5	Western Felixstowe	51
6	Dovercourt Tollgate	49
7	Thorpe, Beaumont & Great Holland	45
8	Eastern Felixstowe	34
9	Orwell & Villages	27
10	Stour	16
11	Ganges	14

Which road in Bath Side has the highest level of crime?

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