Crime Statistics for Lakeside, Aveley, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lakeside in October 2024. There were a total of 444 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	104
Violent Crime	101
Vehicle Crime	70
Anti Social Behaviour	42
Other Theft	32
Public Order	32
Criminal Damage Arson	24
Drugs	22
Theft From The Person	5
Possession Of Weapons	4
Robbery	4
Other Crime	2
Burglary	2
All Crime	444

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 Lakeside. 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 Lakeside

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Little Thurrock (2.48 miles)	550
Temple Hill (3.1 miles)	448
Stone (3.17 miles)	402
Lakeside	383
Greenhithe (2.48 miles)	295
South Stifford (0.88 miles)	269
Grays (2.24 miles)	251
South Ockendon (1.24 miles)	141
North Stifford (1.39 miles)	94
Aveley (1.39 miles)	78

Where are the most violent places near Lakeside?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Little Thurrock	230
Temple Hill	167
Stone	138
Lakeside	101
Grays	95
Greenhithe	69
South Stifford	61
South Ockendon	44
Aveley	33
North Stifford	29

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

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 Lakeside 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 Lakeside compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Belhus	81
2	Aveley and Uplands	81
3	Grays Riverside	73
4	West Thurrock and South Stifford	72
5	Stone Castle	70
6	Little Thurrock Blackshots	59
7	Grays Thurrock	54
8	Stifford Clays	50
9	South Chafford	32
10	Chafford and North Stifford	28

Which road in Lakeside has the highest level of crime?

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