Crime Statistics for Walthamstow, London, Waltham Forest, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Walthamstow in October 2024. There were a total of 2471 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	510
Violent Crime	423
Vehicle Crime	386
Theft From The Person	224
Criminal Damage Arson	168
Other Theft	130
Robbery	120
Shoplifting	112
Drugs	108
Burglary	106
Public Order	92
Bicycle Theft	48
Possession Of Weapons	22
Other Crime	22
All Crime	2471

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 Walthamstow. 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 Walthamstow

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Walthamstow	2341
Upper Clapton (2.24 miles)	1953
Hale End (1.39 miles)	1218
Tottenham Hale (1.86 miles)	1082
Lea (Lee) (1.64 miles)	810
Chingford Hatch (1.96 miles)	781
Higham Hill (0.88 miles)	770
Highams Park (1.24 miles)	655
Wanstead (1.96 miles)	433
South Woodford (1.96 miles)	258

Where are the most violent places near Walthamstow?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Walthamstow	423
Upper Clapton	368
Hale End	239
Tottenham Hale	223
Lea (Lee)	182
Chingford Hatch	153
Higham Hill	126
Highams Park	118
South Woodford	98
Wanstead	77

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

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 Walthamstow 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 Walthamstow compare to surrounding wards?

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

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

Which road in Walthamstow has the highest level of crime?

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