Crime Statistics for Aldham, Colchester, Essex, 2024

Crime statistics for Aldham, Colchester

There were a total of 9 street level crime incidents in Aldham in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Other Theft, followed by Drugs.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Other Theft4
Drugs2
Vehicle Crime1
Public Order1
Burglary1
All Crime9

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Beacon End (2.24 miles)85
Chitts Hills (1.96 miles)84
Marks Tey (1.96 miles)12
Fordham Heath (0.62 miles)12
Aldham9
Copford (1.86 miles)7
Chappel (2.24 miles)4
Great Tey (1.96 miles)3
Fordham (1.24 miles)2
Fordstreet (0.62 miles)0

9.99%
of Lexden and Braiswick residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Aldham?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Beacon End34
Chitts Hills33
Copford3
Marks Tey2
Chappel1
Great Tey1
Fordham1
Fordham Heath0
Aldham0
Fordstreet0

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

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 Aldham 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 Aldham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Aldham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Aldham is ranked #9.

#WardScore
1Castle81
2Old Heath and The Hythe67
3New Town and Christ Church64
4Mile End50
5Shrub End43
6Stanway43
7St Anne's and St John's42
8Highwoods33
9Lexden and Braiswick29
10Prettygate24
11The Colnes13

Which road in Aldham has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
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