Crime Statistics for Reader’s Corner, Chelmsford, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Reader’s Corner 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 Reader’s Corner, 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	33
Public Order	8
Vehicle Crime	8
Other Theft	8
Anti Social Behaviour	7
Other Crime	6
Burglary	5
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Shoplifting	4
Drugs	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 Reader’s Corner. 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 Reader’s Corner

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Chelmsford (1.75 miles)	808
Springfield (2.56 miles)	498
Great Baddow (0.62 miles)	136
Chelmer Village (1.96 miles)	132
Reader’s Corner	84
Baddow Park (1.24 miles)	24
Horne Row (3.1 miles)	4
Little Mascalls (1.39 miles)	4
Butt’s Green (2.55 miles)	2
Great Claydons (2.77 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Reader’s Corner?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Chelmsford	269
Springfield	199
Chelmer Village	62
Great Baddow	43
Reader’s Corner	33
Baddow Park	9
Horne Row	2
Little Mascalls	1
Butt’s Green	0
Great Claydons	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Reader’s Corner?

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 Reader’s Corner 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 Reader’s Corner compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Reader’s Corner and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Reader’s Corner is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Trinity	56
2	Moulsham and Central	56
3	Galleywood	53
4	Marconi	50
5	Waterhouse Farm	48
6	Great Baddow East	41
7	Great Baddow West	38
8	Bicknacre and East and West Hanningfield	38
9	Little Baddow, Danbury and Sandon	32
10	Moulsham Lodge	23
11	Goat Hall	15

Which road in Reader’s Corner has the highest level of crime?

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