Crime Statistics for Rainham, London, Havering, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Rainham in September 2024. There were a total of 683 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	252
Violent Crime	132
Vehicle Crime	64
Criminal Damage Arson	60
Public Order	32
Drugs	28
Other Crime	27
Shoplifting	24
Other Theft	20
Burglary	20
Robbery	12
Theft From The Person	8
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	683

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Rainham. 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 Rainham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Becontree (3.1 miles)	520
Dagenham (2.77 miles)	431
Hornchurch (2.56 miles)	373
Rainham	342
South Hornchurch (0.88 miles)	245
Belvedere (3.1 miles)	236
Coldharbour (2.48 miles)	211
Aveley (2.77 miles)	76
Corbets Tey (2.63 miles)	46
Hacton (1.75 miles)	26

Where are the most violent places near Rainham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Becontree	165
Rainham	132
Dagenham	123
Hornchurch	119
Belvedere	82
South Hornchurch	75
Coldharbour	70
Aveley	39
Corbets Tey	10
Hacton	5

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

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 Rainham 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 Rainham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Rainham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Rainham is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	River	76
2	Alibon	75
3	Erith	68
4	South Hornchurch	68
5	Village	68
6	Slade Green & Northend	68
7	Belvedere	61
8	Rainham and Wennington	61
9	Thamesmead East	60
10	Eastbrook	58
11	Elm Park	52

Which road in Rainham has the highest level of crime?

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