Crime Statistics for Harold Wood, London, Havering, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Harold Wood in August 2024. There were a total of 229 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 Wood, 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	69
Anti Social Behaviour	67
Vehicle Crime	17
Criminal Damage Arson	15
Public Order	14
Burglary	12
Shoplifting	12
Drugs	7
Robbery	4
Other Theft	4
Theft From The Person	3
Other Crime	3
Possession Of Weapons	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	229

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 Wood. 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 Wood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Gidea Park (1.24 miles)	504
Heath Park (1.75 miles)	445
Harold Hill (1.24 miles)	346
Collier Row (2.48 miles)	280
Ardleigh Green (0.88 miles)	253
Harold Wood	229
Harold Park (0.88 miles)	209
Emerson Park (1.24 miles)	130
Upminster (2.24 miles)	86
Great Warley (2.48 miles)	6

Where are the most violent places near Harold Wood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Gidea Park	165
Heath Park	138
Harold Hill	117
Ardleigh Green	111
Collier Row	79
Harold Wood	69
Harold Park	67
Emerson Park	38
Upminster	9
Great Warley	1

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

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 Wood 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 Wood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Harold Wood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Harold Wood is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Heaton	75
2	Romford Town	66
3	Havering Park	57
4	Harold Wood	54
5	St Andrew's	47
6	Hylands	47
7	Squirrel's Heath	43
8	Pettits	43
9	Cranham	31
10	Hacton	28
11	Emerson Park	28

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

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