Crime Statistics for Burnt Mills, Basildon, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Burnt Mills in October 2024. There were a total of 356 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 Burnt Mills, 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	104
Shoplifting	53
Anti Social Behaviour	48
Vehicle Crime	37
Criminal Damage Arson	30
Other Theft	23
Public Order	20
Other Crime	15
Burglary	9
Drugs	7
Possession Of Weapons	4
Bicycle Theft	3
Robbery	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	356

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 Burnt Mills. 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 Burnt Mills

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Barstable (1.75 miles)	854
Felmore (0.62 miles)	725
Chalvedon (1.24 miles)	679
Basildon (0.62 miles)	550
Fryerns (0.88 miles)	457
Pitsea (1.24 miles)	367
Burnt Mills	356
Bowers Gifford (1.75 miles)	274
Eversley (1.39 miles)	236
Nevendon (1.39 miles)	104

Where are the most violent places near Burnt Mills?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Barstable	717
Felmore	299
Chalvedon	291
Basildon	193
Fryerns	186
Pitsea	152
Burnt Mills	104
Bowers Gifford	99
Eversley	85
Nevendon	30

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

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 Burnt Mills 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 Burnt Mills compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Burnt Mills and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Burnt Mills is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Martin's	94
2	Pitsea South East	94
3	Lee Chapel North	93
4	Vange	93
5	Pitsea North West	84
6	Fryerns	76
7	Nethermayne	73
8	Wickford Castledon	55
9	Wickford Park	44
10	Wickford North	38
11	St George's	26

Which road in Burnt Mills has the highest level of crime?

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