Crime Statistics for Hornestreet, Colchester, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hornestreet in September 2024. There was only 2 incident. See where that was on the map below.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Hornestreet, 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	2
All Crime	2

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 Hornestreet. 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 Hornestreet

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Boxted Heath (1.39 miles)	8
Stratford St Mary (1.75 miles)	5
Ardleigh Heath (1.75 miles)	2
Lamb Corner (1.39 miles)	2
Ardleigh Reservoir (1.91 miles)	2
Hornestreet	2
Langham (0.62 miles)	2
Birchhall Corner (1.75 miles)	2
Parney Heath (1.39 miles)	2
Boxted Cross (1.24 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Hornestreet?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Boxted Heath	14
Hornestreet	2
Langham	2
Stratford St Mary	1
Ardleigh Heath	1
Lamb Corner	1
Ardleigh Reservoir	1
Birchhall Corner	1
Parney Heath	1
Boxted Cross	1

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

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 Hornestreet 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 Hornestreet compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hornestreet and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hornestreet is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Castle	81
2	Greenstead	73
3	New Town and Christ Church	64
4	Ardleigh & Little Bromley	51
5	Mile End	50
6	St Anne's and St John's	42
7	Lawford, Manningtree & Mistley	40
8	Highwoods	33
9	Rural North	24
10	Wivenhoe	19
11	East Bergholt	16

Which road in Hornestreet has the highest level of crime?

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