Crime Statistics for North Weald Bassett, Epping Forest, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for North Weald Bassett in October 2024. There were a total of 37 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in North Weald Bassett, 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	20
Vehicle Crime	7
Other Theft	4
Other Crime	4
Drugs	2
All Crime	37

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 North Weald Bassett. 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 North Weald Bassett

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Gernon Bushes (1.75 miles)	184
Coopersale Common (1.75 miles)	156
North Weald Bassett	38
Tyler’s Green (0.88 miles)	24
Colliers Hatch (1.39 miles)	11
Hastingwood (1.96 miles)	7
Toot Hill (1.75 miles)	6
Greensted Green (1.96 miles)	3
Bovinger (1.96 miles)	2
Lower Bobbingworth Green (1.96 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near North Weald Bassett?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Gernon Bushes	108
Coopersale Common	46
North Weald Bassett	20
Tyler’s Green	10
Colliers Hatch	5
Toot Hill	2
Greensted Green	1
Hastingwood	0
Bovinger	0
Lower Bobbingworth Green	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in North Weald Bassett?

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 North Weald Bassett 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 North Weald Bassett compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to North Weald Bassett and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.North Weald Bassett is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Broadley Common, Epping Upland and Nazeing	84
2	Passingford	82
3	Staple Tye	76
4	Harlow Common	64
5	North Weald Bassett	58
6	Epping Lindsey and Thornwood Common	58
7	Theydon Bois	58
8	Epping Hemnall	56
9	Sumners and Kingsmoor	50
10	Moreton and Fyfield	46
11	Church Langley	19

Which road in North Weald Bassett has the highest level of crime?

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