Crime Statistics for Chingford, London, Waltham Forest, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Chingford in September 2024. There were a total of 257 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, 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 Crime75
Anti Social Behaviour52
Vehicle Crime43
Public Order17
Other Theft16
Criminal Damage Arson13
Theft From The Person9
Burglary9
Robbery8
Drugs8
Shoplifting5
Other Crime2
All Crime257

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. 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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Highams Park (2.24 miles)441
Hale End (1.96 miles)413
Chingford Hatch (1.39 miles)367
Chingford Green (0.62 miles)196
Friday Hill (0.62 miles)190
Chingford186
Buckhurst Hill (1.39 miles)150
Chigwell (2.55 miles)98
Lippitts Hill (1.24 miles)37
High Beach (1.96 miles)8

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Where are the most violent places near Chingford?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Highams Park116
Hale End101
Chingford Green86
Chingford Hatch80
Chingford75
Friday Hill57
Buckhurst Hill49
Chigwell45
Lippitts Hill8
High Beach1

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

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 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 compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Chingford and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Chingford is ranked #5.

#WardScore
1Larkswood74
2Ponders End74
3Valley69
4Buckhurst Hill East62
5Hatch Lane60
6Chingford Green59
7Bridge57
8Loughton Forest56
9Buckhurst Hill West55
10Endlebury55
11Monkhams47

Which road in Chingford has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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