Crime Statistics for Hastingwood, Epping Forest, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hastingwood in October 2024. There were a total of 7 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	3
Vehicle Crime	2
Other Theft	2
All Crime	7

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 Hastingwood. 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 Hastingwood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Harlow (2.24 miles)	413
Mark Hall South (2.24 miles)	371
Latton Bush (1.39 miles)	178
Foster Street (0.62 miles)	39
North Weald Bassett (1.96 miles)	38
Hobbs Cross (1.96 miles)	27
Tyler’s Green (1.76 miles)	24
Hastingwood	7
Magdalen Laver (1.96 miles)	1
Tilegate Green (1.39 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Hastingwood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Harlow	161
Mark Hall South	123
Latton Bush	72
North Weald Bassett	20
Foster Street	13
Tyler’s Green	10
Hobbs Cross	9
Hastingwood	0
Magdalen Laver	0
Tilegate Green	0

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

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 Hastingwood 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 Hastingwood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hastingwood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Hastingwood have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Passingford.

#	Ward	Score
1	Passingford	82
2	Staple Tye	76
3	Bush Fair	65
4	Harlow Common	64
5	Old Harlow	58
6	North Weald Bassett	58
7	Little Parndon and Hare Street	54
8	Sumners and Kingsmoor	50
9	Moreton and Fyfield	46
10	Great Parndon	46
11	Church Langley	19

Which road in Hastingwood has the highest level of crime?

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