Crime Statistics for Halstead, Braintree, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Halstead in August 2024. There were a total of 74 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Halstead, 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 Crime22
Anti Social Behaviour11
Criminal Damage Arson10
Shoplifting8
Burglary7
Other Theft7
Public Order3
Other Crime2
Vehicle Crime2
Bicycle Theft1
Theft From The Person1
All Crime74

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 Halstead. 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 Halstead

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Halstead74
Bunting’s Green (1.24 miles)17
Boose’s Green (1.86 miles)17
Colne Engaine (2.48 miles)11
Greenstead Green (1.39 miles)4
Don Johns (1.75 miles)4
Gosfield (1.96 miles)2
Plaistow Green (1.39 miles)0
Little Maplestead (2.56 miles)0
Great Maplestead (2.56 miles)0

5.2%
of Halstead Trinity residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Halstead?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Halstead22
Boose’s Green8
Colne Engaine8
Greenstead Green4
Don Johns4
Bunting’s Green3
Gosfield1
Plaistow Green0
Little Maplestead0
Great Maplestead0

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

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 Halstead 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 Halstead compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Bocking South59
2Braintree Central & Beckers Green59
3Bocking North52
4Halstead Trinity46
5Braintree West38
6Halstead St Andrew's34
7Bocking Blackwater34
8Coggeshall31
9Gosfield & Greenstead Green25
10Hedingham19
11The Colnes13

Which road in Halstead has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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