Crime Statistics for Edney Common, Chelmsford, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Edney Common in September 2024. There were a total of 4 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 Edney Common, 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	2
Vehicle Crime	2
All Crime	4

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 Edney Common. 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 Edney Common

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Handley Green (1.86 miles)	13
Great Oxney Green (1.39 miles)	9
Mill Green (1.96 miles)	8
Margaretting (2.24 miles)	7
Loves Green (0.62 miles)	5
Cooksmill Green (1.75 miles)	5
Edney Common	4
Little Oxney Green (0.88 miles)	3
Newney Green (1.86 miles)	3
Beggar Hill (2.24 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Edney Common?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Loves Green	4
Cooksmill Green	4
Handley Green	3
Great Oxney Green	2
Mill Green	2
Edney Common	2
Little Oxney Green	2
Margaretting	1
Newney Green	1
Beggar Hill	0

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

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 Edney Common 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 Edney Common compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Edney Common and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Edney Common is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Andrews	56
2	Moulsham and Central	56
3	Marconi	50
4	High Ongar, Willingale and The Rodings	48
5	Waterhouse Farm	48
6	Patching Hall	48
7	Writtle	41
8	The Lawns	37
9	Chelmsford Rural West	33
10	Moulsham Lodge	23
11	Goat Hall	15

Which road in Edney Common has the highest level of crime?

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