Crime Statistics for Rainham, London, Havering, 2024

Is Rainham rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for October 2024. There were a total of 425 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	158
Violent Crime	104
Drugs	26
Burglary	24
Criminal Damage Arson	24
Other Theft	22
Public Order	20
Vehicle Crime	19
Shoplifting	14
Theft From The Person	6
Other Crime	4
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	425

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 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)	607
Dagenham (2.77 miles)	544
Rainham	376
Belvedere (3.1 miles)	299
South Hornchurch (0.88 miles)	265
Coldharbour (2.48 miles)	260
Hornchurch (2.56 miles)	208
Aveley (2.77 miles)	78
Corbets Tey (2.63 miles)	50
Hacton (1.75 miles)	38

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	213
Dagenham	170
Coldharbour	123
Rainham	104
Belvedere	86
South Hornchurch	70
Hornchurch	60
Aveley	33
Hacton	20
Corbets Tey	16

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 East Close.