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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Higham Hill in September 2024. There were a total of 1198 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 Higham 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	255
Anti Social Behaviour	224
Vehicle Crime	163
Other Theft	116
Theft From The Person	102
Criminal Damage Arson	62
Shoplifting	56
Public Order	52
Robbery	52
Burglary	50
Drugs	32
Bicycle Theft	18
Other Crime	10
Possession Of Weapons	6
All Crime	1198

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 Higham 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 Higham Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
South Tottenham (2.24 miles)	2233
Walthamstow (0.88 miles)	2228
Tottenham (1.86 miles)	1229
Tottenham Hale (1.39 miles)	1008
Higham Hill	1006
Upper Edmonton (1.75 miles)	955
Lea (Lee) (2.06 miles)	756
Highams Park (0.88 miles)	755
Hale End (1.39 miles)	522
Chingford Hatch (1.75 miles)	367

Where are the most violent places near Higham Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Walthamstow	816
South Tottenham	356
Tottenham	286
Upper Edmonton	281
Higham Hill	255
Tottenham Hale	209
Lea (Lee)	187
Highams Park	168
Hale End	101
Chingford Hatch	80

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Higham 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 Higham 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 Higham Hill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Higham Hill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Higham Hill is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Northumberland Park	92
2	Tottenham Hale	82
3	Markhouse	79
4	Hoe Street	76
5	Forest	74
6	High Street	73
7	Lea Bridge	73
8	Higham Hill	72
9	Chapel End	66
10	Hale End and Highams Park	65
11	William Morris	61

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

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