Crime Statistics for Stort, Harlow, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Stort in August 2024. There were a total of 107 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	32
Violent Crime	30
Other Theft	8
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Vehicle Crime	7
Burglary	7
Possession Of Weapons	4
Public Order	4
Drugs	2
Theft From The Person	2
Bicycle Theft	2
Other Crime	2
All Crime	107

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 Stort. 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 Stort

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Mark Hall North (2.02 miles)	228
Temple Fields (1.62 miles)	138
Campions (0.88 miles)	90
Stort (0.73 miles)	84
Churchgate Street (1.5 miles)	84
Stort	74
Lower Sheering (0.62 miles)	74
Hobbs Cross (2.17 miles)	56
Sheering (1.14 miles)	26
Newman’s End (1.94 miles)	7

Where are the most violent places near Stort?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Mark Hall North	80
Temple Fields	41
Campions	39
Churchgate Street	33
Stort	30
Lower Sheering	27
Hobbs Cross	21
Sheering	10
Newman’s End	1

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

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 Stort 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 Stort compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Stort and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Stort is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Netteswell	79
2	Toddbrook	76
3	Mark Hall	70
4	Harlow Common	64
5	Old Harlow	58
6	Hastingwood, Matching and Sheering Village	55
7	Hunsdon	54
8	Sawbridgeworth	34
9	Much Hadham	23
10	Church Langley	19
11	Lower Sheering	8

Which road in Stort has the highest level of crime?

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