Crime Statistics for Gidea Park, London, Havering, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Gidea Park in October 2024. There were a total of 374 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 Gidea Park, 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	88
Anti Social Behaviour	57
Shoplifting	47
Public Order	31
Vehicle Crime	26
Drugs	25
Other Theft	22
Criminal Damage Arson	22
Theft From The Person	22
Burglary	13
Robbery	13
Bicycle Theft	4
Other Crime	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	374

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 Gidea Park. 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 Gidea Park

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Heath Park (1.24 miles)	880
Rush Green (2.24 miles)	530
Harold Hill (1.75 miles)	392
Gidea Park	374
Collier Row (1.24 miles)	316
Harold Wood (1.24 miles)	277
Harold Park (1.96 miles)	239
Ardleigh Green (0.88 miles)	214
Emerson Park (1.75 miles)	189
Chase Cross (1.75 miles)	176

Where are the most violent places near Gidea Park?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Heath Park	251
Rush Green	187
Harold Hill	122
Gidea Park	88
Harold Wood	77
Collier Row	76
Harold Park	71
Emerson Park	63
Ardleigh Green	55
Chase Cross	55

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

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 Gidea Park 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 Gidea Park compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Heaton	75
2	Chadwell Heath	74
3	Brooklands	70
4	Romford Town	66
5	Mawneys	57
6	Havering Park	57
7	St Andrew's	47
8	Hylands	47
9	Squirrel's Heath	43
10	Pettits	43
11	Emerson Park	28

Which road in Gidea Park has the highest level of crime?

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