Crime Statistics for Fiddlers Hamlet, Epping Forest, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Fiddlers Hamlet in August 2024. There were a total of 35 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 Fiddlers Hamlet, 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 Crime12
Shoplifting8
Public Order6
Vehicle Crime5
Drugs2
Other Crime1
Criminal Damage Arson1
All Crime35

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Fiddlers Hamlet. 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 Fiddlers Hamlet

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Gernon Bushes (0.62 miles)60
Epping (1.39 miles)54
Coopersale Common (0.62 miles)46
Coopersale Street37
Ivy Chimneys (1.39 miles)25
Fiddlers Hamlet22
North Weald Bassett (2.24 miles)20
Bell Common (1.86 miles)14
Hobbs Cross (1.24 miles)10
Colliers Hatch (1.96 miles)1

11.58%
of Epping Hemnall residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Fiddlers Hamlet?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Gernon Bushes23
Epping17
Bell Common16
Coopersale Common14
Fiddlers Hamlet12
Ivy Chimneys9
North Weald Bassett8
Coopersale Street6
Hobbs Cross2
Colliers Hatch1

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

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 Fiddlers Hamlet 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 Fiddlers Hamlet compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Waltham Abbey High Beach89
2Broadley Common, Epping Upland and Nazeing84
3Passingford82
4Loughton Fairmead75
5Loughton Broadway66
6North Weald Bassett58
7Epping Lindsey and Thornwood Common58
8Theydon Bois58
9Epping Hemnall56
10Lambourne53
11Moreton and Fyfield46

Which road in Fiddlers Hamlet has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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