Crime Statistics for Lea Navigation, Epping Forest, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lea Navigation in October 2024. There were a total of 97 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 Lea Navigation, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime37
Anti Social Behaviour22
Drugs7
Public Order6
Other Theft5
Burglary5
Criminal Damage Arson4
Vehicle Crime4
Shoplifting3
Possession Of Weapons2
Robbery1
Bicycle Theft1
All Crime97

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 Lea Navigation. 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 Lea Navigation

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Turnford (1.37 miles)223
Spitalbrook (1.45 miles)161
Keysers Estate (0.31 miles)160
Lea Navigation97
Broxbourne (1.19 miles)92
Hoddesdon (1.67 miles)83
Lea (Lee) (1.88 miles)31
Holyfield (1.72 miles)24
Lower Nazeing (1.01 miles)11
Bumble’s Green (1.67 miles)9

15.32%
of Wormley and Turnford residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Lea Navigation?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Turnford69
Keysers Estate57
Spitalbrook38
Lea Navigation37
Broxbourne27
Hoddesdon23
Lea (Lee)9
Holyfield5
Lower Nazeing4
Bumble’s Green3

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

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 Lea Navigation 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 Lea Navigation compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lea Navigation and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Lea Navigation is ranked #3.

#WardScore
1Cheshunt South and Theobalds73
2Waltham Abbey South West69
3Wormley and Turnford58
4Waltham Abbey North East58
5Cheshunt North57
6Hoddesdon Town and Rye Park49
7Broxbourne and Hoddesdon South49
8Flamstead End46
9Lower Nazeing41
10Goffs Oak28
11Hertford Heath15

Which road in Lea Navigation has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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