Crime Statistics for Great Clacton, Tendring, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Great Clacton in August 2024. There were a total of 552 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 Great Clacton, 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	246
Shoplifting	67
Criminal Damage Arson	47
Public Order	46
Anti Social Behaviour	43
Other Theft	27
Drugs	22
Vehicle Crime	19
Burglary	12
Other Crime	9
Possession Of Weapons	6
Robbery	4
Theft From The Person	3
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	552

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 Great Clacton. 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 Clacton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Clacton-on-Sea (0.62 miles)	570
Great Clacton	552
Rush Green (0.88 miles)	467
Burrsville Park (0.88 miles)	186
Bocking’s Elm (1.24 miles)	96
Cook’s Green (1.39 miles)	95
Jaywick in Essex (2.24 miles)	89
Little Clacton (1.96 miles)	65
Holland-on-Sea (1.86 miles)	44
Row Heath (2.24 miles)	16

Where are the most violent places near Great Clacton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Clacton-on-Sea	335
Great Clacton	246
Rush Green	214
Burrsville Park	76
Bocking’s Elm	53
Jaywick in Essex	46
Cook’s Green	36
Holland-on-Sea	19
Little Clacton	13
Row Heath	8

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

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 Clacton 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 Clacton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Pier	98
2	St James	87
3	Coppins	86
4	St John's	72
5	St Paul's	71
6	West Clacton & Jaywick Sands	71
7	Bluehouse	67
8	Eastcliff	53
9	Cann Hall	51
10	Burrsville	50
11	St Bartholomew's	26

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

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