Crime Statistics for Little Baddow, Chelmsford, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Little Baddow in August 2024. There were a total of 3 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Little Baddow, 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
Other Theft	1
All Crime	3

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 Little Baddow. 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 Little Baddow

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Chelmer Village (2.48 miles)	99
Chelmer (1.54 miles)	33
Boreham (1.75 miles)	20
Danbury Common (1.96 miles)	18
Runsell Green (1.75 miles)	15
Gay Bowers (2.24 miles)	15
Nounsley (2.24 miles)	14
Horne Row (1.86 miles)	4
Little Baddow	3
Danbury (1.24 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Little Baddow?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Chelmer Village	78
Danbury Common	10
Chelmer	9
Runsell Green	9
Gay Bowers	8
Nounsley	8
Boreham	7
Little Baddow	2
Danbury	2
Horne Row	0

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

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 Little Baddow 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 Little Baddow compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Trinity	56
2	Galleywood	53
3	Springfield North	41
4	Great Baddow East	41
5	Great Baddow West	38
6	Bicknacre and East and West Hanningfield	38
7	Boreham and The Leighs	36
8	Purleigh	32
9	Little Baddow, Danbury and Sandon	32
10	Chelmer Village and Beaulieu Park	29
11	Wickham Bishops and Woodham	23

Which road in Little Baddow has the highest level of crime?

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