Crime Statistics for Marks Tey, Colchester, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Marks Tey in August 2024. There were a total of 11 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Public Order, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Public Order	3
Violent Crime	2
Other Theft	2
Theft From The Person	1
Vehicle Crime	1
Bicycle Theft	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	11

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 Marks Tey. 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 Marks Tey

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Beacon End (2.55 miles)	90
Fordham Heath (2.24 miles)	16
Marks Tey	11
Aldham (1.96 miles)	10
Copford (0.62 miles)	9
Little Tey (1.24 miles)	7
Great Tey (1.75 miles)	4
Fordstreet (1.86 miles)	2
Copford Green (0.88 miles)	0
Hardy’s Green (2.24 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Marks Tey?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Beacon End	39
Fordham Heath	6
Great Tey	6
Marks Tey	2
Copford	2
Aldham	1
Little Tey	1
Fordstreet	0
Copford Green	0
Hardy’s Green	0

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

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 Marks Tey 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 Marks Tey compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Marks Tey and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Marks Tey is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Castle	81
2	Mile End	50
3	Shrub End	43
4	Stanway	43
5	Tiptree	42
6	Lexden and Braiswick	29
7	Marks Tey and Layer	28
8	Prettygate	24
9	Kelvedon & Feering	24
10	The Colnes	13
11	Great Totham	8

Which road in Marks Tey has the highest level of crime?

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