Crime Statistics for Baddow Park, Chelmsford, Essex, 2024

Crime statistics for Baddow Park, Chelmsford

There were a total of 34 street level crime incidents in Baddow Park in March 2024. 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 Baddow Park, 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 Crime11
Vehicle Crime5
Other Theft5
Public Order3
Criminal Damage Arson2
Anti Social Behaviour2
Possession Of Weapons2
Drugs2
Shoplifting1
Burglary1
All Crime34

Map of street level crime incidents in March 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Baddow Park. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Baddow Park

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Chelmsford (2.78 miles)542
Great Baddow (1.86 miles)148
Reader’s Corner (1.24 miles)94
Baddow Park34
Great Claydons (2.48 miles)6
Butt’s Green (2.55 miles)5
Hanningfield Reservoir (2.2 miles)5
Greenwoods (2.63 miles)3
Margaretting Tye (2.77 miles)3
Little Mascalls (0.62 miles)2

7.18%
of Bicknacre and East and West Hanningfield residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Baddow Park?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Chelmsford228
Great Baddow54
Reader’s Corner35
Baddow Park11
Great Claydons2
Butt’s Green2
Hanningfield Reservoir1
Greenwoods1
Margaretting Tye1
Little Mascalls0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Baddow 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 Baddow 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 Baddow Park compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Rettendon and Runwell62
2Moulsham and Central56
3Galleywood53
4Marconi50
5Waterhouse Farm48
6Great Baddow East41
7Great Baddow West38
8Bicknacre and East and West Hanningfield38
9Little Baddow, Danbury and Sandon32
10Moulsham Lodge23
11Goat Hall15

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

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

Last updated: March 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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