Crime Statistics for Handley Green, Brentwood, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Handley Green in October 2024. There were a total of 17 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	4
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Vehicle Crime	3
Burglary	3
Violent Crime	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Public Order	1
All Crime	17

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 Handley Green. 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 Handley Green

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ingatestone (1.39 miles)	51
Fryerning (0.88 miles)	24
Handley Green	17
Margaretting (1.24 miles)	10
Loves Green (1.96 miles)	6
Margaretting Tye (1.96 miles)	5
Mill Green (0.62 miles)	3
Edney Common (1.86 miles)	3
Buttsbury (1.96 miles)	1
Beggar Hill (1.24 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Handley Green?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ingatestone	8
Fryerning	4
Margaretting Tye	4
Handley Green	2
Margaretting	2
Loves Green	1
Mill Green	1
Edney Common	0
Buttsbury	0
Beggar Hill	0

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

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 Handley Green 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 Handley Green compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	South Hanningfield, Stock and Margaretting	61
2	Ingatestone, Fryerning and Mountnessing	54
3	Hutton North	43
4	Shenfield	42
5	Hutton East	40
6	Chelmsford Rural West	33
7	Hutton Central	32
8	Billericay East	27
9	Tipps Cross	24
10	Billericay West	17
11	Goat Hall	15

Which road in Handley Green has the highest level of crime?

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