Crime Statistics for Waltham’s Cross, Braintree, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Waltham’s Cross in September 2024. There were a total of 5 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 Waltham’s Cross, 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 Crime2
Criminal Damage Arson1
Vehicle Crime1
Anti Social Behaviour1
All Crime5

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 Waltham’s Cross. 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’s Cross

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Great Bardfield (1.24 miles)8
Finchingfield (1.39 miles)7
Bridge End (1.39 miles)7
Waltham’s Cross5
Blackmore End (2.48 miles)2
Little Bardfield (2.48 miles)1
Brickkiln Green (2.55 miles)1
Crow’s Green (3.11 miles)0
Bardfield Saling (2.56 miles)0
Shalford Green (2.24 miles)0

4.9%
of Three Fields residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Waltham’s Cross?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Finchingfield3
Waltham’s Cross2
Great Bardfield1
Bridge End1
Blackmore End1
Brickkiln Green1
Little Bardfield0
Crow’s Green0
Bardfield Saling0
Shalford Green0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Waltham’s Cross?

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’s Cross 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’s Cross compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Bocking South59
2Bocking North52
3Braintree West38
4Great Dunmow South & Barnston33
5Great Dunmow North30
6Yeldham30
7Gosfield & Greenstead Green25
8Flitch Green & Little Dunmow19
9The Sampfords18
10Rayne13
11Three Fields13

Which road in Waltham’s Cross has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Waltham’s Cross 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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