Crime Statistics for Norton Heath, Brentwood, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Norton Heath in September 2024. There were a total of 3 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Norton Heath, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime2
Criminal Damage Arson1
All Crime3

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Norton Heath. 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 Norton Heath

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Hallsford Bridge (2.77 miles)14
Blackmore (1.86 miles)7
Shellow Bowells (1.86 miles)5
Loves Green (2.48 miles)5
Cooksmill Green (2.24 miles)5
Miller’s Green (1.96 miles)4
Norton Heath3
Norton Mandeville (1.24 miles)2
Cannon’s Green (2.24 miles)2
Beggar Hill (2.63 miles)2

4.01%
of High Ongar, Willingale and The Rodings residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Norton Heath?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Hallsford Bridge7
Loves Green4
Cooksmill Green4
Norton Heath2
Blackmore1
Norton Mandeville1
Cannon’s Green1
Shellow Bowells0
Miller’s Green0
Beggar Hill0

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

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 Norton Heath 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 Norton Heath compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Norton Heath and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Norton Heath is ranked #4.

#WardScore
1Shelley62
2Pilgrims Hatch57
3Chipping Ongar, Greensted and Marden Ash53
4High Ongar, Willingale and The Rodings48
5Hutton North43
6Shenfield42
7Hutton East40
8Chelmsford Rural West33
9Hutton Central32
10Brizes and Doddinghurst30
11Tipps Cross24

Which road in Norton Heath has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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