Crime Statistics for Halstead, Braintree, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Halstead in October 2024. There were a total of 90 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 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	24
Shoplifting	16
Drugs	12
Other Theft	11
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Public Order	6
Burglary	4
Other Crime	3
Vehicle Crime	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	90

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 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.

Location	Crime Incidents
Halstead	90
Bunting’s Green (1.24 miles)	31
Colne Engaine (2.48 miles)	8
Gosfield (1.96 miles)	7
Boose’s Green (1.86 miles)	4
Little Maplestead (2.56 miles)	1
Greenstead Green (1.39 miles)	0
Plaistow Green (1.39 miles)	0
Don Johns (1.75 miles)	0
Great Maplestead (2.56 miles)	0

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.

Location	Violent Incidents
Halstead	24
Bunting’s Green	9
Colne Engaine	4
Boose’s Green	2
Gosfield	1
Little Maplestead	1
Greenstead Green	0
Plaistow Green	0
Don Johns	0
Great Maplestead	0

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.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bocking South	59
2	Braintree Central & Beckers Green	59
3	Bocking North	52
4	Halstead Trinity	46
5	Braintree West	38
6	Halstead St Andrew's	34
7	Bocking Blackwater	34
8	Coggeshall	31
9	Gosfield & Greenstead Green	25
10	Hedingham	19
11	The Colnes	13

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 Hurrell Close.