Crime Statistics for Wanstead, London, Redbridge, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Wanstead in August 2024. There were a total of 563 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	176
Violent Crime	138
Burglary	72
Criminal Damage Arson	28
Public Order	28
Shoplifting	24
Robbery	22
Other Theft	20
Vehicle Crime	18
Theft From The Person	16
Drugs	9
Other Crime	8
Bicycle Theft	4
All Crime	563

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Manor Park (2.24 miles)	1620
Newbury Park (2.48 miles)	1065
Forest Gate (1.86 miles)	862
Walthamstow (1.96 miles)	826
Aldersbrook (0.62 miles)	564
Wanstead	551
Hale End (2.24 miles)	413
Barkingside (2.55 miles)	382
Cranbrook (1.39 miles)	356
South Woodford (1.24 miles)	200

Where are the most violent places near Wanstead?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Manor Park	820
Newbury Park	355
Forest Gate	227
Walthamstow	206
Cranbrook	183
Barkingside	140
Wanstead	138
Aldersbrook	113
Hale End	101
South Woodford	43

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

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 Wanstead 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 Wanstead compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Wanstead and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Wanstead is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Hoe Street	76
2	Wanstead Park	74
3	Forest	74
4	Lea Bridge	73
5	Leyton	65
6	Wood Street	64
7	Leytonstone	64
8	Cann Hall	60
9	Wanstead Village	58
10	Clayhall	56
11	South Woodford	54

Which road in Wanstead has the highest level of crime?

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