Crime Statistics for Hockley, Rochford, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hockley in August 2024. There were a total of 48 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 Hockley, 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	20
Anti Social Behaviour	9
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Shoplifting	5
Other Crime	4
Vehicle Crime	3
Public Order	1
Other Theft	1
All Crime	48

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 Hockley. 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 Hockley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hadleigh (3.62 miles)	202
Rayleigh (2.24 miles)	98
Hockley	48
Ashingdon (1.39 miles)	38
Mill Hill (1.39 miles)	16
Rawreth (3.77 miles)	15
Canewdon (3.34 miles)	5
Great Stambridge (3.77 miles)	5
South Fambridge (1.96 miles)	3
Ballards Gore (3.72 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Hockley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Rayleigh	40
Hadleigh	35
Hockley	20
Ashingdon	20
Mill Hill	7
Canewdon	3
Rawreth	2
South Fambridge	1
Great Stambridge	0
Ballards Gore	0

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

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 Hockley 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 Hockley compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Roche North and Rural	56
2	Wheatley	44
3	Hawkwell East	24
4	Hullbridge	24
5	Eastwood Park	22
6	Hawkwell West	18
7	Hockley and Ashingdon	18
8	Trinity	16
9	Lodge	14
10	Sweyne Park and Grange	13
11	Hockley	11

Which road in Hockley has the highest level of crime?

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