Crime Statistics for Four Wantz, Chelmsford, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Four Wantz in September 2024. There were a total of 23 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Four Wantz, 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	11
Public Order	8
Burglary	4
All Crime	23

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 Four Wantz. 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 Four Wantz

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Four Wantz	12
Leaden Roding (1.75 miles)	6
Margaret Roding (1.39 miles)	4
Good Easter (0.88 miles)	3
Beauchamp Roding (1.96 miles)	3
Farmbridge End (0.62 miles)	3
Nether Street (1.96 miles)	3
Can (1.15 miles)	2
Clatterford End (1.24 miles)	2
High Easter (1.96 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Four Wantz?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Four Wantz	11
Beauchamp Roding	3
Nether Street	3
Leaden Roding	1
Margaret Roding	1
Good Easter	1
Farmbridge End	1
Can	0
Clatterford End	0
High Easter	0

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

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 Four Wantz 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 Four Wantz compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Shelley	62
2	St Andrews	56
3	Chipping Ongar, Greensted and Marden Ash	53
4	High Ongar, Willingale and The Rodings	48
5	Waterhouse Farm	48
6	Patching Hall	48
7	Writtle	41
8	Broomfield and The Walthams	40
9	Chelmsford Rural West	33
10	Hatfield Heath	31
11	High Easter & the Rodings	19

Which road in Four Wantz has the highest level of crime?

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