Crime Statistics for Handley Green, Brentwood, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Handley Green in September 2024. There were a total of 13 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 Handley Green, 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 Crime3
Shoplifting3
Public Order2
Criminal Damage Arson2
Other Theft2
Burglary1
All Crime13

Map of street level crime incidents in September 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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Ingatestone (1.39 miles)18
Fryerning (0.88 miles)17
Handley Green13
Mill Green (0.62 miles)8
Margaretting (1.24 miles)7
Loves Green (1.96 miles)5
Edney Common (1.86 miles)4
Buttsbury (1.96 miles)2
Beggar Hill (1.24 miles)2
Margaretting Tye (1.96 miles)1

7.26%
of Ingatestone, Fryerning and Mountnessing residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Ingatestone4
Fryerning4
Loves Green4
Handley Green3
Mill Green2
Edney Common2
Margaretting1
Margaretting Tye1
Buttsbury0
Beggar Hill0

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.

#WardScore
1South Hanningfield, Stock and Margaretting61
2Ingatestone, Fryerning and Mountnessing54
3Hutton North43
4Shenfield42
5Hutton East40
6Chelmsford Rural West33
7Hutton Central32
8Billericay East27
9Tipps Cross24
10Billericay West17
11Goat Hall15

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.

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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