Crime Statistics for Hobbs Cross, Epping Forest, Theydon Garnon, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hobbs Cross in August 2024. There were a total of 10 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Public Order, followed by Other Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Public Order3
Other Crime2
Anti Social Behaviour2
Violent Crime2
Drugs1
All Crime10

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 Hobbs Cross. 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 Hobbs Cross

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Gernon Bushes (1.86 miles)60
Coopersale Common (1.86 miles)46
Coopersale Street (1.24 miles)37
Ivy Chimneys (1.39 miles)25
Fiddlers Hamlet (1.24 miles)22
Lambourne (1.86 miles)15
Bell Common (2.24 miles)14
Hobbs Cross10
Abridge (1.96 miles)6
Passingford Bridge (2.24 miles)5

7.4%
of Theydon Bois residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Hobbs Cross?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Gernon Bushes23
Bell Common16
Coopersale Common14
Fiddlers Hamlet12
Ivy Chimneys9
Coopersale Street6
Passingford Bridge4
Lambourne3
Hobbs Cross2
Abridge1

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

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 Hobbs Cross 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 Hobbs Cross compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hobbs Cross and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hobbs Cross is ranked #9.

#WardScore
1Waltham Abbey High Beach89
2Broadley Common, Epping Upland and Nazeing84
3Passingford82
4Loughton Fairmead75
5Loughton Alderton74
6Loughton St John's68
7Loughton Broadway66
8Epping Lindsey and Thornwood Common58
9Theydon Bois58
10Epping Hemnall56
11Lambourne53

Which road in Hobbs Cross has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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