Crime Statistics for Laindon, Basildon, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Laindon in October 2024. There were a total of 204 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Laindon, 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	74
Vehicle Crime	27
Criminal Damage Arson	23
Anti Social Behaviour	21
Other Theft	17
Burglary	11
Public Order	10
Drugs	7
Other Crime	7
Robbery	3
Shoplifting	1
Bicycle Theft	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	204

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 Laindon. 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 Laindon

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Barstable (2.55 miles)	854
Pipps Hill (1.24 miles)	406
Laindon	204
Great Berry (1.24 miles)	42
Langdon Hills (1.24 miles)	42
Dry Street (2.24 miles)	20
Great Burstead (1.96 miles)	14
Tye Common (2.56 miles)	5
Bulphan (2.63 miles)	4
Little Burstead (1.96 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Laindon?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Barstable	717
Pipps Hill	152
Laindon	74
Great Berry	17
Langdon Hills	17
Dry Street	7
Great Burstead	7
Bulphan	3
Tye Common	1
Little Burstead	0

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

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 Laindon 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 Laindon compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Laindon and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Laindon is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Martin's	94
2	Lee Chapel North	93
3	Nethermayne	73
4	Laindon Park	60
5	Orsett	58
6	Herongate, Ingrave and West Horndon	53
7	Stanford East and Corringham Town	46
8	Langdon Hills	44
9	Burstead	40
10	The Homesteads	29
11	Billericay West	17

Which road in Laindon has the highest level of crime?

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