Crime Statistics for Great Burstead, Basildon, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Great Burstead in October 2024. There were a total of 14 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 Great Burstead, 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 Crime7
Vehicle Crime3
Burglary1
Criminal Damage Arson1
Other Theft1
Anti Social Behaviour1
All Crime14

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Pipps Hill (1.96 miles)406
Laindon (1.96 miles)204
Gooseberry Green (1.96 miles)78
Billericay (1.39 miles)53
Crays Hill (1.86 miles)21
Crouch (2.59 miles)15
Great Burstead14
Tye Common (1.39 miles)5
Ramsden Bellhouse (2.24 miles)4
Little Burstead (1.24 miles)3

6.57%
of Burstead residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Great Burstead?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Pipps Hill152
Laindon74
Gooseberry Green28
Billericay19
Great Burstead7
Crays Hill1
Tye Common1
Crouch0
Ramsden Bellhouse0
Little Burstead0

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

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 Great Burstead 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 Great Burstead compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1St Martin's94
2Lee Chapel North93
3Crouch65
4South Hanningfield, Stock and Margaretting61
5Laindon Park60
6Ingatestone, Fryerning and Mountnessing54
7Herongate, Ingrave and West Horndon53
8Langdon Hills44
9Burstead40
10Billericay East27
11Billericay West17

Which road in Great Burstead has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
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