Crime Statistics for Latton Bush, Harlow, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Latton Bush in August 2024. There were a total of 220 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Latton Bush, 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	96
Criminal Damage Arson	22
Vehicle Crime	22
Anti Social Behaviour	17
Other Theft	14
Shoplifting	12
Public Order	12
Burglary	8
Drugs	7
Other Crime	5
Robbery	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	220

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 Latton Bush. 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 Latton Bush

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Netteswell (1.39 miles)	760
Harlow (0.88 miles)	443
Mark Hall South (1.24 miles)	374
Passmores (1.24 miles)	308
Mark Hall North (1.86 miles)	228
Latton Bush	220
Hare Street (1.96 miles)	164
Great Parndon (1.86 miles)	126
Foster Street (1.24 miles)	43
Hastingwood (1.39 miles)	9

Where are the most violent places near Latton Bush?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Netteswell	312
Harlow	174
Mark Hall South	146
Passmores	136
Latton Bush	96
Mark Hall North	80
Hare Street	58
Great Parndon	46
Foster Street	13
Hastingwood	1

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

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 Latton Bush 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 Latton Bush compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Latton Bush and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Latton Bush is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Netteswell	79
2	Toddbrook	76
3	Staple Tye	76
4	Mark Hall	70
5	Bush Fair	65
6	Harlow Common	64
7	Old Harlow	58
8	Little Parndon and Hare Street	54
9	Sumners and Kingsmoor	50
10	Great Parndon	46
11	Church Langley	19

Which road in Latton Bush has the highest level of crime?

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