Crime Statistics for Harold Hill, London, Havering, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Harold Hill in August 2024. There were a total of 346 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 Harold Hill, 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	117
Anti Social Behaviour	100
Criminal Damage Arson	26
Public Order	21
Vehicle Crime	20
Drugs	14
Burglary	14
Other Theft	12
Shoplifting	8
Other Crime	7
Theft From The Person	3
Robbery	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	346

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 Harold Hill. 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 Harold Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Gidea Park (1.75 miles)	504
Harold Hill	346
Ardleigh Green (1.96 miles)	253
Harold Wood (1.24 miles)	229
Harold Park (0.88 miles)	209
South Weald (1.96 miles)	28
Brook Street (1.96 miles)	27
Nuper’s Hatch (2.24 miles)	11
Watton’s Green (2.24 miles)	7
Waterhales (1.96 miles)	5

Where are the most violent places near Harold Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Gidea Park	165
Harold Hill	117
Ardleigh Green	111
Harold Wood	69
Harold Park	67
Brook Street	9
South Weald	2
Waterhales	2
Nuper’s Hatch	1
Watton’s Green	1

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

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 Harold Hill 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 Harold Hill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Harold Hill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Harold Hill is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Gooshays	86
2	South Weald	84
3	Heaton	75
4	Romford Town	66
5	Mawneys	57
6	Havering Park	57
7	Harold Wood	54
8	St Andrew's	47
9	Squirrel's Heath	43
10	Pettits	43
11	Emerson Park	28

Which road in Harold Hill has the highest level of crime?

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