Crime Statistics for Finchingfield, Braintree, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Finchingfield in September 2024. There were a total of 7 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Finchingfield, 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 Crime3
Anti Social Behaviour2
Vehicle Crime1
Public Order1
All Crime7

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 Finchingfield. 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 Finchingfield

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Great Bardfield (1.39 miles)8
Finchingfield7
Bridge End (0.88 miles)7
Waltham’s Cross (1.39 miles)5
Blackmore End (3.34 miles)2
Little Bardfield (2.24 miles)1
Brickkiln Green (3.16 miles)1
Bustard Green (3.51 miles)0
Great Sampford (3.1 miles)0
Cornish Hall End (2.48 miles)0

5.06%
of The Sampfords residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Finchingfield?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Finchingfield3
Waltham’s Cross2
Great Bardfield1
Bridge End1
Blackmore End1
Brickkiln Green1
Little Bardfield0
Bustard Green0
Great Sampford0
Cornish Hall End0

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

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 Finchingfield 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 Finchingfield compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Finchingfield and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Finchingfield is ranked #8.

#WardScore
1Bocking North52
2Great Dunmow North30
3Yeldham30
4Gosfield & Greenstead Green25
5Bumpstead22
6Flitch Green & Little Dunmow19
7Hedingham19
8The Sampfords18
9Rayne13
10Three Fields13
11Debden & Wimbish5

Which road in Finchingfield has the highest level of crime?

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

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