Crime Statistics for Rayleigh, Rochford, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Rayleigh in October 2024. There were a total of 84 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Rayleigh, 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	42
Public Order	8
Shoplifting	8
Drugs	6
Other Theft	5
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Other Crime	3
Burglary	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	84

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 Rayleigh. 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 Rayleigh

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hadleigh (1.86 miles)	143
Thundersley (2.24 miles)	125
New Thundersley (2.55 miles)	99
Rayleigh	84
Tarpots (3.34 miles)	80
Rawreth Shot (3.1 miles)	72
Benfleet (3.03 miles)	51
Hockley (2.24 miles)	31
Mill Hill (1.96 miles)	14
Rawreth (2.63 miles)	11

Where are the most violent places near Rayleigh?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hadleigh	107
Thundersley	53
Rayleigh	42
New Thundersley	40
Rawreth Shot	40
Tarpots	35
Benfleet	25
Hockley	12
Mill Hill	5
Rawreth	3

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

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 Rayleigh 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 Rayleigh compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Rayleigh and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Rayleigh is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Wheatley	44
2	St James	41
3	Victoria	34
4	St Peter's	31
5	Appleton	29
6	Boyce	29
7	Cedar Hall	23
8	Eastwood Park	22
9	Trinity	16
10	Lodge	14
11	Sweyne Park and Grange	13

Which road in Rayleigh has the highest level of crime?

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