Crime Statistics for Little Braxted, Braintree, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Little Braxted in October 2024. There were a total of 136 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 Little Braxted, 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	45
Anti Social Behaviour	28
Criminal Damage Arson	19
Shoplifting	18
Public Order	12
Other Crime	4
Other Theft	4
Theft From The Person	2
Burglary	2
Robbery	2
All Crime	136

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 Little Braxted. 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 Braxted

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Chipping Hill (1.39 miles)	170
Little Braxted	136
Blackwater (0.38 miles)	45
Beacon Hill (1.75 miles)	10
Great Totham (2.24 miles)	9
Great Braxted (1.86 miles)	6
Totham Hill (2.77 miles)	4
Highfields (2.63 miles)	4
Faulkbourne (3.1 miles)	2
Inworth (3.1 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Little Braxted?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Chipping Hill	64
Little Braxted	45
Blackwater	17
Beacon Hill	6
Great Totham	6
Highfields	4
Great Braxted	3
Totham Hill	2
Faulkbourne	0
Inworth	0

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

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 Braxted 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 Braxted compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Little Braxted and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Little Braxted is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Witham North	63
2	Witham Central	57
3	Witham West	57
4	Witham South	51
5	Maldon North	44
6	Tiptree	42
7	Heybridge West	28
8	Hatfield Peverel & Terling	25
9	Kelvedon & Feering	24
10	Heybridge East	10
11	Great Totham	8

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

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