Crime Statistics for Crays Hill, Basildon, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Crays Hill in October 2024. There were a total of 21 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Other Theft.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	8
Other Theft	7
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Public Order	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Violent Crime	1
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	21

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 Crays Hill. 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 Crays Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Fryerns (1.96 miles)	457
Pipps Hill (2.24 miles)	406
Burnt Mills (1.75 miles)	356
Runwell (2.24 miles)	157
Crays Hill	21
Crouch (1.09 miles)	15
Great Burstead (1.86 miles)	14
Downham (1.96 miles)	13
Ramsden Heath (1.86 miles)	11
Ramsden Bellhouse (1.24 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Crays Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Fryerns	186
Pipps Hill	152
Burnt Mills	104
Runwell	57
Great Burstead	7
Downham	6
Ramsden Heath	4
Crays Hill	1
Crouch	0
Ramsden Bellhouse	0

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

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 Crays Hill 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 Crays Hill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Crays Hill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Crays Hill is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Martin's	94
2	Lee Chapel North	93
3	Pitsea North West	84
4	Fryerns	76
5	Nethermayne	73
6	Crouch	65
7	South Hanningfield, Stock and Margaretting	61
8	Wickford Castledon	55
9	Wickford Park	44
10	Burstead	40
11	Wickford North	38

Which road in Crays Hill has the highest level of crime?

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