Crime Statistics for South Stifford, North Stifford, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Stifford in October 2024. There were a total of 269 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 South Stifford, 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	61
Shoplifting	56
Vehicle Crime	32
Anti Social Behaviour	25
Public Order	24
Other Theft	23
Criminal Damage Arson	22
Drugs	12
Theft From The Person	6
Possession Of Weapons	2
Bicycle Theft	2
Robbery	2
Burglary	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	269

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 South Stifford. 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 South Stifford

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Little Thurrock (1.96 miles)	550
Stone (2.78 miles)	402
Lakeside (0.88 miles)	383
Greenhithe (1.96 miles)	295
South Stifford	269
Grays (1.39 miles)	251
Knockhall (2.48 miles)	239
South Ockendon (1.96 miles)	141
North Stifford (1.39 miles)	94
Aveley (2.24 miles)	78

Where are the most violent places near South Stifford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Little Thurrock	230
Stone	138
Knockhall	116
Lakeside	101
Grays	95
Greenhithe	69
South Stifford	61
South Ockendon	44
Aveley	33
North Stifford	29

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

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 South Stifford 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 South Stifford compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Swanscombe	86
2	Greenhithe & Knockhall	83
3	Belhus	81
4	Aveley and Uplands	81
5	Grays Riverside	73
6	West Thurrock and South Stifford	72
7	Stone Castle	70
8	Grays Thurrock	54
9	Stifford Clays	50
10	South Chafford	32
11	Chafford and North Stifford	28

Which road in South Stifford has the highest level of crime?

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