Crime Statistics for Colchester, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Colchester in October 2024. There were a total of 465 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 Colchester, 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	160
Shoplifting	54
Anti Social Behaviour	49
Other Theft	35
Public Order	34
Criminal Damage Arson	32
Vehicle Crime	20
Bicycle Theft	19
Drugs	19
Burglary	16
Other Crime	9
Robbery	8
Theft From The Person	7
Possession Of Weapons	3
All Crime	465

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 Colchester. 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 Colchester

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Parson’s Heath (1.39 miles)	715
Colchester	465
Abbey Field (0.62 miles)	450
Greenstead (1.86 miles)	397
Mile End (1.24 miles)	242
Berechurch (1.86 miles)	224
Fox Street (2.23 miles)	136
Maypole Green (1.96 miles)	135
Shrub End (1.75 miles)	98
Colne (1 miles)	89

Where are the most violent places near Colchester?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Parson’s Heath	287
Greenstead	220
Berechurch	211
Abbey Field	162
Colchester	160
Mile End	103
Maypole Green	58
Fox Street	48
Shrub End	41
Colne	35

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

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 Colchester 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 Colchester compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Colchester and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Colchester have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Wivenhoe.

#	Ward	Score
1	Castle	81
2	Greenstead	73
3	Berechurch	73
4	Old Heath and The Hythe	67
5	New Town and Christ Church	64
6	Mile End	50
7	Shrub End	43
8	St Anne's and St John's	42
9	Highwoods	33
10	Prettygate	24
11	Wivenhoe	19

Which road in Colchester has the highest level of crime?

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