Crime Statistics for Harold Wood, London, Havering, 2025

Is Harold Wood rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 350 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

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	91
Shoplifting	58
Anti Social Behaviour	58
Vehicle Crime	37
Other Theft	28
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Drugs	14
Theft From The Person	10
Public Order	10
Robbery	10
Other Crime	8
Burglary	8
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	350

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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
Heath Park (1.75 miles)	668
Harold Wood	338
Gidea Park (1.24 miles)	314
Collier Row (2.48 miles)	287
Harold Hill (1.24 miles)	265
Emerson Park (1.24 miles)	222
Ardleigh Green (0.88 miles)	198
Harold Park (0.88 miles)	159
Upminster (2.24 miles)	122
Great Warley (2.48 miles)	12

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
Heath Park	173
Gidea Park	110
Harold Hill	96
Harold Wood	91
Collier Row	59
Emerson Park	59
Ardleigh Green	56
Harold Park	52
Upminster	22
Great Warley	5

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 Crossways.