Crime Statistics for Chigwell, Epping Forest, Essex, 2024

Is Chigwell rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for October 2024. There were a total of 130 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 Chigwell, 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 Crime50
Vehicle Crime30
Other Theft11
Criminal Damage Arson10
Drugs10
Anti Social Behaviour6
Theft From The Person4
Other Crime3
Public Order3
Burglary2
Shoplifting1
All Crime130

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 Chigwell. 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 Chigwell

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Fullwell Cross (1.96 miles)480
Grange Hill (0.88 miles)336
Buckhurst Hill (1.24 miles)313
Friday Hill (2.48 miles)279
Hainault (1.75 miles)271
Fairlop (2.24 miles)264
Loughton (1.86 miles)228
Chigwell Row (1.86 miles)155
Chigwell103
Lambourne End (2.55 miles)29

23.61%
of Chigwell Village residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Chigwell?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Fullwell Cross150
Grange Hill114
Hainault82
Friday Hill81
Buckhurst Hill78
Fairlop66
Loughton64
Chigwell Row54
Chigwell50
Lambourne End7

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

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 Chigwell 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 Chigwell compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Chigwell and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Chigwell is ranked #5.

#WardScore
1Loughton Alderton74
2Loughton Roding74
3Grange Hill69
4Hainault68
5Chigwell Village64
6Buckhurst Hill East62
7Fairlop61
8Bridge57
9Buckhurst Hill West55
10Fullwell55
11Churchfields50

Which road in Chigwell has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Chigwell with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around M11.

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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