Crime Statistics for Parkeston, Tendring, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Parkeston in August 2024. There were a total of 80 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 Parkeston, 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	28
Vehicle Crime	11
Public Order	11
Anti Social Behaviour	8
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Shoplifting	5
Other Theft	4
Other Crime	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Drugs	1
Burglary	1
Bicycle Theft	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	80

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 Parkeston. 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 Parkeston

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Tower Hill (1.86 miles)	132
Dovercourt (1.39 miles)	123
Harwich (0.88 miles)	121
Bath Side (1.71 miles)	103
Parkeston	80
Upper Dovercourt (1.24 miles)	65
Shotley Gate (0.88 miles)	41
Ramsey (1.75 miles)	28
Little Oakley (1.96 miles)	6
Shotley (1.86 miles)	6

Where are the most violent places near Parkeston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tower Hill	74
Dovercourt	63
Bath Side	63
Harwich	53
Upper Dovercourt	38
Parkeston	28
Ramsey	15
Shotley Gate	6
Shotley	6
Little Oakley	5

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

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 Parkeston 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 Parkeston compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Harwich & Kingsway	91
2	Dovercourt Bay	73
3	Dovercourt All Saints	63
4	Dovercourt Vines & Parkeston	60
5	Western Felixstowe	51
6	Dovercourt Tollgate	49
7	Thorpe, Beaumont & Great Holland	45
8	Eastern Felixstowe	34
9	The Oakleys & Wix	26
10	Stour	16
11	Ganges	14

Which road in Parkeston has the highest level of crime?

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