Crime Statistics for Great Maplestead, Braintree, Essex, 2024

Crime statistics for Great Maplestead, Braintree

There were a total of 1 street level crime incidents in in February 2024. The largest category was Other Theft.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Other Theft1
All Crime1

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Great Maplestead. 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 Great Maplestead

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Halstead (2.56 miles)64
Castle Hedingham (1.39 miles)34
Sible Hedingham (1.86 miles)29
Rushley Green (1.75 miles)18
Cobbs Fenn (1.96 miles)12
Little Maplestead (1.24 miles)2
Great Maplestead1
Cripple Corner (3.1 miles)1
Long Gardens (2.77 miles)1
Southey Green (2.24 miles)0

4.74%
of Hedingham residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Great Maplestead?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Halstead24
Castle Hedingham14
Sible Hedingham12
Rushley Green11
Cobbs Fenn2
Little Maplestead1
Great Maplestead0
Cripple Corner0
Long Gardens0
Southey Green0

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

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 Great Maplestead 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 Great Maplestead compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Great Maplestead and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Great Maplestead is ranked #7.

#WardScore
1Bocking North52
2Halstead Trinity46
3Halstead St Andrew's34
4Coggeshall31
5Stour Valley North25
6Gosfield & Greenstead Green25
7Hedingham19
8Stour Valley South13
9The Colnes13
10Three Fields13

Which road in Great Maplestead has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: February 2024
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