Crime Statistics for Maldon, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Maldon in October 2024. There were a total of 97 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Maldon, 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	32
Shoplifting	14
Other Theft	8
Anti Social Behaviour	8
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Drugs	6
Vehicle Crime	5
Burglary	5
Other Crime	5
Public Order	5
Bicycle Theft	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	97

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 Maldon. 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 Maldon

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Heybridge (0.88 miles)	101
Maldon	97
Broad Street Green (1.75 miles)	43
Runsell Green (3.34 miles)	27
Heybridge Basin (1.86 miles)	18
Beacon Hill (3.17 miles)	10
Great Totham (2.56 miles)	9
Langford (1.39 miles)	3
Rudley Green (2.56 miles)	2
Curling Tye Green (1.24 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Maldon?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Heybridge	39
Maldon	32
Broad Street Green	25
Runsell Green	13
Heybridge Basin	9
Beacon Hill	6
Great Totham	6
Rudley Green	1
Langford	0
Curling Tye Green	0

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

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 Maldon 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 Maldon compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Witham Central	57
2	Witham West	57
3	Maldon East	56
4	Witham South	51
5	Maldon North	44
6	Purleigh	32
7	Heybridge West	28
8	Wickham Bishops and Woodham	23
9	Maldon South	18
10	Heybridge East	10
11	Maldon West	7

Which road in Maldon has the highest level of crime?

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