Crime Statistics for Southchurch, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Southchurch in September 2024. There were a total of 264 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 Southchurch, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime111
Anti Social Behaviour36
Criminal Damage Arson20
Drugs19
Public Order18
Other Theft14
Vehicle Crime13
Burglary13
Shoplifting10
Possession Of Weapons4
Theft From The Person3
Other Crime2
Robbery1
All Crime264

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 Southchurch. 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 Southchurch

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Southend-on-Sea (1.96 miles)943
Southchurch264
North Shoebury (1.39 miles)179
Bournes Green (0.88 miles)115
Great Wakering (2.77 miles)73
Shoebury Ness (2.18 miles)62
Shoeburyness (1.96 miles)56
Cambridge Town (1.39 miles)48
Stonebridge (1.96 miles)43
Little Wakering (2.63 miles)17

9.1%
of Thorpe (Southend-on-Sea) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Southchurch?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Southend-on-Sea478
Southchurch111
North Shoebury108
Bournes Green62
Cambridge Town54
Great Wakering53
Shoebury Ness38
Shoeburyness32
Stonebridge22
Little Wakering12

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

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 Southchurch 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 Southchurch compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Milton91
2Kursaal90
3Victoria83
4Roche South66
5St. Luke's64
6Shoeburyness64
7Westborough58
8Southchurch56
9Chalkwell56
10West Shoebury50
11Thorpe49

Which road in Southchurch has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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