Crime Statistics for Heath Park, London, Havering, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Heath Park in October 2024. There were a total of 927 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 Heath 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	251
Anti Social Behaviour	130
Shoplifting	92
Public Order	84
Other Theft	76
Drugs	72
Criminal Damage Arson	54
Theft From The Person	48
Burglary	41
Vehicle Crime	37
Robbery	20
Other Crime	10
Possession Of Weapons	6
Bicycle Theft	6
All Crime	927

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 Heath 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 Heath Park

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Heath Park	880
Rush Green (1.39 miles)	530
Gidea Park (1.24 miles)	374
Collier Row (1.75 miles)	316
Harold Wood (1.75 miles)	277
Harold Park (2.63 miles)	239
Ardleigh Green (0.88 miles)	214
Hornchurch (1.39 miles)	208
Emerson Park (1.24 miles)	189
Upminster (2.55 miles)	149

Where are the most violent places near Heath Park?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Heath 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
Gidea Park	88
Harold Wood	77
Collier Row	76
Harold Park	71
Emerson Park	63
Hornchurch	60
Ardleigh Green	55
Upminster	38

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Heath 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 Heath 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 Heath Park compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Brooklands	70
2	Romford Town	66
3	Eastbrook	58
4	Mawneys	57
5	Elm Park	52
6	St Andrew's	47
7	Hylands	47
8	Squirrel's Heath	43
9	Pettits	43
10	Cranham	31
11	Emerson Park	28

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

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