Crime Statistics for Chelmer, Chelmsford, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Chelmer in September 2024. There were a total of 29 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Chelmer, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime9
Vehicle Crime8
Public Order4
Other Theft2
Drugs2
Possession Of Weapons2
Criminal Damage Arson2
All Crime29

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 Chelmer. 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 Chelmer

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Springfield (2.64 miles)1050
Great Baddow (3.03 miles)232
Chelmer Village (1.72 miles)99
Chelmer33
Boreham (0.22 miles)20
Runsell Green (3.29 miles)15
Nounsley (2.49 miles)14
Horne Row (3.12 miles)4
Little Baddow (1.54 miles)3
Danbury (2.55 miles)2

6.46%
of Boreham and The Leighs residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Chelmer?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Springfield745
Great Baddow85
Chelmer Village78
Chelmer9
Runsell Green9
Nounsley8
Boreham7
Little Baddow2
Danbury2
Horne Row0

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

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 Chelmer 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 Chelmer compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Trinity56
2Moulsham and Central56
3Marconi50
4Springfield North41
5Great Baddow East41
6Great Baddow West38
7The Lawns37
8Boreham and The Leighs36
9Little Baddow, Danbury and Sandon32
10Chelmer Village and Beaulieu Park29
11Wickham Bishops and Woodham23

Which road in Chelmer has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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