Crime Statistics for Friday Hill, London, Waltham Forest, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Friday Hill in October 2024. There were a total of 399 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Friday Hill, 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	81
Vehicle Crime	80
Anti Social Behaviour	75
Public Order	31
Drugs	30
Criminal Damage Arson	27
Other Theft	20
Shoplifting	13
Burglary	12
Robbery	9
Theft From The Person	8
Other Crime	6
Possession Of Weapons	4
Bicycle Theft	3
All Crime	399

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 Friday Hill. 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 Friday Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hale End (1.39 miles)	1218
Chingford Hatch (0.88 miles)	781
Highams Park (1.75 miles)	655
Buckhurst Hill (1.24 miles)	313
Chingford Green (0.88 miles)	283
Friday Hill	279
South Woodford (1.96 miles)	258
Chingford (0.62 miles)	227
Chigwell (2.48 miles)	103
Lippitts Hill (1.86 miles)	98

Where are the most violent places near Friday Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hale End	239
Chingford Hatch	153
Highams Park	118
South Woodford	98
Friday Hill	81
Buckhurst Hill	78
Chingford Green	55
Chigwell	50
Chingford	46
Lippitts Hill	25

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

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 Friday Hill 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 Friday Hill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Larkswood	74
2	Valley	69
3	Hale End and Highams Park	65
4	Buckhurst Hill East	62
5	Hatch Lane	60
6	Chingford Green	59
7	Bridge	57
8	Buckhurst Hill West	55
9	Endlebury	55
10	Churchfields	50
11	Monkhams	47

Which road in Friday Hill has the highest level of crime?

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