Crime Statistics for Lower Sheering, Epping Forest, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lower Sheering in August 2024. There were a total of 83 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour41
Violent Crime27
Vehicle Crime4
Other Theft3
Public Order3
Burglary2
Other Crime2
Theft From The Person1
All Crime83

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 Lower Sheering. 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 Lower Sheering

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Campions (1.39 miles)90
Stort (0.4 miles)84
Churchgate Street (1.96 miles)84
Stort (0.62 miles)74
Lower Sheering74
Sheering (0.88 miles)26
Spellbrook (1.96 miles)24
Gaston Green (1.86 miles)20
Newman’s End (1.75 miles)7
Ardley End (1.86 miles)2

9.12%
of Lower Sheering residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Lower Sheering?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Campions39
Churchgate Street33
Stort30
Lower Sheering27
Spellbrook12
Gaston Green12
Sheering10
Newman’s End1
Ardley End1

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

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 Lower Sheering 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 Lower Sheering compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Netteswell79
2Mark Hall70
3Harlow Common64
4Old Harlow58
5Hastingwood, Matching and Sheering Village55
6Hunsdon54
7Sawbridgeworth34
8Much Hadham23
9Church Langley19
10Bishop's Stortford South15
11Lower Sheering8

Which road in Lower Sheering has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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