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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Stifford in August 2024. There were a total of 265 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Shoplifting55
Violent Crime49
Anti Social Behaviour49
Vehicle Crime36
Public Order25
Other Theft18
Criminal Damage Arson14
Bicycle Theft5
Robbery5
Theft From The Person3
Drugs3
Burglary2
Other Crime1
All Crime265

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 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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Little Thurrock (1.96 miles)546
Knockhall (2.48 miles)541
Stone (2.78 miles)484
Greenhithe (1.96 miles)459
Grays (1.39 miles)273
South Stifford265
Lakeside (0.88 miles)227
South Ockendon (1.96 miles)192
North Stifford (1.39 miles)99
Aveley (2.24 miles)76

37.53%
of West Thurrock and South Stifford residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Little Thurrock207
Stone172
Knockhall150
Greenhithe107
South Ockendon78
Grays70
Lakeside61
South Stifford49
Aveley39
North Stifford34

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.

#WardScore
1Swanscombe86
2Greenhithe & Knockhall83
3Belhus81
4Aveley and Uplands81
5Grays Riverside73
6West Thurrock and South Stifford72
7Stone Castle70
8Grays Thurrock54
9Stifford Clays50
10South Chafford32
11Chafford and North Stifford28

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.

Last updated: August 2024
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