Crime Statistics for Shotgate, Basildon, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Shotgate in October 2024. There were a total of 101 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Shotgate, 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	26
Shoplifting	20
Criminal Damage Arson	17
Anti Social Behaviour	13
Other Theft	8
Vehicle Crime	5
Public Order	4
Drugs	3
Other Crime	3
Burglary	2
All Crime	101

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 Shotgate. 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 Shotgate

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Burnt Mills (2.24 miles)	356
Bowers Gifford (2.56 miles)	274
Runwell (1.75 miles)	157
Nevendon (0.88 miles)	104
Shotgate	101
New Thundersley (1.96 miles)	99
Tarpots (2.48 miles)	80
Rawreth Shot (0.88 miles)	72
Battlesbridge (1.39 miles)	56
Rawreth (1.39 miles)	11

Where are the most violent places near Shotgate?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Burnt Mills	104
Bowers Gifford	99
Runwell	57
Battlesbridge	44
New Thundersley	40
Rawreth Shot	40
Tarpots	35
Nevendon	30
Shotgate	26
Rawreth	3

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

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 Shotgate 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 Shotgate compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Shotgate and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Shotgate have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Sweyne Park and Grange.

#	Ward	Score
1	Pitsea South East	94
2	Pitsea North West	84
3	Fryerns	76
4	Wickford Castledon	55
5	Wickford Park	44
6	Wickford North	38
7	St Peter's	31
8	Appleton	29
9	St George's	26
10	Downhall and Rawreth	17
11	Sweyne Park and Grange	13

Which road in Shotgate has the highest level of crime?

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