Crime Statistics for Chingford Hatch, London, Waltham Forest, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Chingford Hatch in September 2024. There were a total of 367 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 Chingford Hatch, 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	80
Anti Social Behaviour	78
Vehicle Crime	62
Drugs	33
Other Theft	24
Criminal Damage Arson	18
Shoplifting	18
Public Order	16
Burglary	11
Theft From The Person	11
Robbery	8
Other Crime	4
Bicycle Theft	3
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	367

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 Chingford Hatch. 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 Chingford Hatch

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Walthamstow (1.96 miles)	2228
Higham Hill (1.75 miles)	1006
Highams Park (0.88 miles)	755
Hale End (0.62 miles)	522
Friday Hill (0.88 miles)	426
Chingford Hatch	367
South Woodford (1.75 miles)	270
Chingford Green (1.24 miles)	196
Chingford (1.39 miles)	186
Buckhurst Hill (1.96 miles)	150

Where are the most violent places near Chingford Hatch?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Walthamstow	816
Higham Hill	255
Friday Hill	252
Highams Park	168
Hale End	101
Chingford Green	86
Chingford Hatch	80
South Woodford	75
Chingford	75
Buckhurst Hill	49

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

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 Chingford Hatch 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 Chingford Hatch compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Chingford Hatch and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Chingford Hatch is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Larkswood	74
2	High Street	73
3	Higham Hill	72
4	Valley	69
5	Chapel End	66
6	Hale End and Highams Park	65
7	William Morris	61
8	Hatch Lane	60
9	Chingford Green	59
10	Endlebury	55
11	Monkhams	47

Which road in Chingford Hatch has the highest level of crime?

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