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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Waltham Abbey in October 2024. There were a total of 358 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	124
Other Theft	48
Anti Social Behaviour	48
Vehicle Crime	32
Shoplifting	26
Criminal Damage Arson	22
Public Order	18
Drugs	18
Robbery	8
Burglary	6
Possession Of Weapons	4
Other Crime	2
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	358

Map of street level crime incidents in October 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.

Location	Crime Incidents
Holdbrook (1.39 miles)	710
Freezy Water (1.39 miles)	656
Waltham Cross (1.86 miles)	532
Enfield Lock (1.75 miles)	467
Waltham Abbey	358
Lea Navigation (0.31 miles)	280
New River (2.04 miles)	268
Aimes Green (1.39 miles)	65
Lea (Lee) (1.68 miles)	31
Holyfield (1.86 miles)	24

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.

Location	Violent Incidents
Holdbrook	251
Freezy Water	245
Waltham Cross	196
Waltham Abbey	124
Enfield Lock	114
Lea Navigation	96
New River	81
Aimes Green	38
Lea (Lee)	9
Holyfield	5

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.

#	Ward	Score
1	Waltham Abbey High Beach	89
2	Cheshunt South and Theobalds	73
3	Waltham Cross	72
4	Turkey Street	72
5	Enfield Highway	70
6	Waltham Abbey South West	69
7	Waltham Abbey Paternoster	69
8	Rosedale and Bury Green	66
9	Waltham Abbey Honey Lane	63
10	Cheshunt North	57
11	Enfield Lock	56

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 Hewins Close.