Crime Statistics for Lea Navigation, Epping Forest, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lea Navigation in October 2024. There were a total of 280 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 Lea Navigation, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime96
Anti Social Behaviour40
Shoplifting29
Other Theft29
Vehicle Crime21
Public Order14
Drugs14
Criminal Damage Arson14
Burglary8
Robbery6
Bicycle Theft3
Other Crime2
Possession Of Weapons2
Theft From The Person2
All Crime280

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 Lea Navigation. 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 Lea Navigation

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Holdbrook (1.12 miles)710
Freezy Water (1.12 miles)656
Waltham Cross (1.55 miles)532
Enfield Lock (1.55 miles)467
Waltham Abbey (0.31 miles)358
Lea Navigation280
New River (1.73 miles)268
Aimes Green (1.55 miles)65
Lea (Lee) (1.69 miles)31
Holyfield (1.89 miles)24

13.95%
of Waltham Abbey Honey Lane residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Lea Navigation?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Holdbrook251
Freezy Water245
Waltham Cross196
Waltham Abbey124
Enfield Lock114
Lea Navigation96
New River81
Aimes Green38
Lea (Lee)9
Holyfield5

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

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 Lea Navigation 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 Lea Navigation compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Ponders End74
2Cheshunt South and Theobalds73
3Waltham Cross72
4Turkey Street72
5Enfield Highway70
6Waltham Abbey South West69
7Waltham Abbey Paternoster69
8Rosedale and Bury Green66
9Waltham Abbey Honey Lane63
10Cheshunt North57
11Enfield Lock56

Which road in Lea Navigation has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
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