Crime Statistics for Gay Bowers, Chelmsford, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Gay Bowers in September 2024. There were a total of 29 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Gay Bowers, 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 Crime16
Other Theft4
Criminal Damage Arson2
Anti Social Behaviour2
Possession Of Weapons2
Burglary2
Vehicle Crime1
All Crime29

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 Gay Bowers. 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 Gay Bowers

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Gay Bowers30
Danbury Common (0.62 miles)18
Runsell Green (0.62 miles)16
Bicknacre (1.39 miles)10
Great Claydons (2.23 miles)10
Butt’s Green (1.96 miles)7
Horne Row (1.24 miles)3
Cock Clarks (1.75 miles)2
Danbury (1.39 miles)2
Little Baddow (2.24 miles)2

4.06%
of Purleigh residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Gay Bowers?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Gay Bowers16
Danbury Common10
Runsell Green9
Bicknacre6
Great Claydons5
Butt’s Green3
Danbury2
Horne Row1
Cock Clarks1
Little Baddow1

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

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 Gay Bowers 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 Gay Bowers compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Gay Bowers and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Gay Bowers is ranked #7.

#WardScore
1Maldon East56
2Galleywood53
3Maldon North44
4Great Baddow East41
5Great Baddow West38
6Bicknacre and East and West Hanningfield38
7Purleigh32
8Little Baddow, Danbury and Sandon32
9Wickham Bishops and Woodham23
10Maldon South18
11Maldon West7

Which road in Gay Bowers has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Gay Bowers 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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