Crime Statistics for Hadleigh, Castle Point, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hadleigh in October 2024. There were a total of 289 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 Hadleigh, 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	107
Shoplifting	40
Burglary	36
Anti Social Behaviour	24
Criminal Damage Arson	20
Vehicle Crime	16
Other Theft	16
Drugs	12
Public Order	12
Other Crime	6
All Crime	289

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 Hadleigh. 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 Hadleigh

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Canvey Island (3.1 miles)	147
Hadleigh	143
Thundersley (1.96 miles)	125
New Thundersley (2.77 miles)	99
Rayleigh (1.86 miles)	84
Benfleet (1.84 miles)	51
South Benfleet (2.55 miles)	48
Hope’s Green (2.55 miles)	37
Two Tree Island (1.65 miles)	10
Canvey Point (2.39 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Hadleigh?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hadleigh	107
Thundersley	53
Canvey Island	44
Rayleigh	42
New Thundersley	40
Hope’s Green	26
Benfleet	25
South Benfleet	19
Two Tree Island	5
Canvey Point	1

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

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 Hadleigh 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 Hadleigh compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hadleigh and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hadleigh is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Canvey Island Winter Gardens	60
2	St James	41
3	Canvey Island North	38
4	St Mary's	36
5	Victoria	34
6	Belfairs	29
7	Appleton	29
8	Boyce	29
9	Cedar Hall	23
10	West Leigh	15
11	Lodge	14

Which road in Hadleigh has the highest level of crime?

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