Crime Statistics for Waltham Abbey, Epping Forest, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Waltham Abbey in August 2024. There were a total of 272 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 Waltham Abbey, 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 Crime79
Anti Social Behaviour64
Other Theft29
Criminal Damage Arson21
Drugs16
Vehicle Crime15
Public Order14
Shoplifting10
Burglary8
Robbery7
Bicycle Theft4
Other Crime2
Theft From The Person2
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime272

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 Waltham Abbey. 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 Waltham Abbey

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Freezy Water (1.39 miles)735
Holdbrook (1.39 miles)416
Enfield Lock (1.75 miles)393
Lea Navigation (0.31 miles)264
Waltham Cross (1.86 miles)251
New River (2.04 miles)211
Waltham Abbey201
Aimes Green (1.39 miles)51
Lea (Lee) (1.68 miles)41
Holyfield (1.86 miles)16

13.95%
of Waltham Abbey Honey Lane residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Waltham Abbey?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Freezy Water199
Enfield Lock115
Holdbrook112
Waltham Abbey79
Waltham Cross76
Lea Navigation66
New River66
Aimes Green22
Lea (Lee)8
Holyfield2

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

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 Waltham Abbey 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 Waltham Abbey compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Waltham Abbey High Beach89
2Cheshunt South and Theobalds73
3Waltham Cross72
4Turkey Street72
5Enfield Highway70
6Waltham Abbey South West69
7Waltham Abbey Paternoster69
8Rosedale and Bury Green66
9Waltham Abbey Honey Lane63
10Cheshunt North57
11Enfield Lock56

Which road in Waltham Abbey has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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