Crime Statistics for Roydon, Epping Forest, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Roydon in August 2024. There were a total of 36 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Roydon, 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	14
Anti Social Behaviour	14
Vehicle Crime	4
Robbery	2
Shoplifting	2
All Crime	36

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 Roydon. 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 Roydon

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Little Parndon (1.86 miles)	213
Rye Park (1.96 miles)	186
Hailey (1.86 miles)	181
Hare Street (1.96 miles)	164
Spitalbrook (2.24 miles)	155
St Margarets (1.39 miles)	90
Pinnacles (1.39 miles)	49
Roydon	39
Halls Green (1.39 miles)	14
Roydon Hamlet (1.96 miles)	10

Where are the most violent places near Roydon?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Little Parndon	83
Hailey	66
Hare Street	58
Rye Park	55
Spitalbrook	40
St Margarets	34
Pinnacles	32
Roydon	14
Roydon Hamlet	8
Halls Green	6

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

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 Roydon 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 Roydon compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Toddbrook	76
2	Roydon	74
3	Little Parndon and Hare Street	54
4	Stanstead Abbots	54
5	Hunsdon	54
6	Hoddesdon Town and Rye Park	49
7	Broxbourne and Hoddesdon South	49
8	Great Parndon	46
9	Hoddesdon North	42
10	Lower Nazeing	41
11	Great Amwell	26

Which road in Roydon has the highest level of crime?

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