Crime Statistics for South Woodham Ferrers, Chelmsford, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Woodham Ferrers in September 2024. There were a total of 72 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in South Woodham Ferrers, 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	39
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Vehicle Crime	5
Drugs	4
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Other Crime	4
Shoplifting	3
Other Theft	2
Public Order	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	72

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes South Woodham Ferrers. 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 Woodham Ferrers

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

Location	Crime Incidents
South Woodham Ferrers	66
Battlesbridge (2.63 miles)	38
Rawreth Shot (3.1 miles)	34
Mill Hill (2.78 miles)	13
Coalhill (3.1 miles)	10
Rawreth (2.78 miles)	8
Chapel Row (1.96 miles)	4
Rettendon (2.55 miles)	3
Cock Clarks (3.17 miles)	2
Cold Norton (3.1 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near South Woodham Ferrers?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
South Woodham Ferrers	39
Battlesbridge	12
Rawreth Shot	8
Mill Hill	6
Coalhill	4
Rettendon	2
Rawreth	1
Chapel Row	1
Cock Clarks	1
Cold Norton	1

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

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 Woodham Ferrers 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 Woodham Ferrers compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to South Woodham Ferrers and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.South Woodham Ferrers is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Rettendon and Runwell	62
2	Wheatley	44
3	Wickford North	38
4	Purleigh	32
5	Hullbridge	24
6	South Woodham-Elmwood and Woodville	18
7	Downhall and Rawreth	17
8	Trinity	16
9	South Woodham-Chetwood and Collingwood	16
10	Sweyne Park and Grange	13
11	Hockley	11

Which road in South Woodham Ferrers has the highest level of crime?

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