Crime Statistics for Highams Park, London, Waltham Forest, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Highams Park in August 2024. There were a total of 441 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	160
Violent Crime	116
Vehicle Crime	26
Drugs	24
Burglary	22
Robbery	19
Theft From The Person	18
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Other Theft	14
Public Order	11
Shoplifting	5
Other Crime	4
Bicycle Theft	3
Possession Of Weapons	3
All Crime	441

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 Highams Park. 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 Highams Park

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Tottenham Hale (2.24 miles)	850
Walthamstow (1.24 miles)	826
Upper Edmonton (1.96 miles)	691
Higham Hill (0.88 miles)	510
Highams Park	441
Hale End (0.62 miles)	413
Chingford Hatch (0.88 miles)	367
South Woodford (1.96 miles)	200
Chingford Green (1.96 miles)	196
Friday Hill (1.75 miles)	190

Where are the most violent places near Highams Park?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tottenham Hale	207
Walthamstow	206
Upper Edmonton	193
Highams Park	116
Higham Hill	114
Hale End	101
Chingford Green	86
Chingford Hatch	80
Friday Hill	57
South Woodford	43

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

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 Highams Park 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 Highams Park compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Highams Park and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Highams Park is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Markhouse	79
2	Hoe Street	76
3	Larkswood	74
4	High Street	73
5	Lea Bridge	73
6	Higham Hill	72
7	Valley	69
8	Chapel End	66
9	Hale End and Highams Park	65
10	Wood Street	64
11	William Morris	61

Which road in Highams Park has the highest level of crime?

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