Crime Statistics for Ballingdon, Braintree, Essex, 2024

Crime statistics for Ballingdon, Braintree

There were a total of 11 street level crime incidents in Ballingdon in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Other Theft, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Other Theft2
Violent Crime2
Public Order2
Drugs2
Vehicle Crime1
Criminal Damage Arson1
Burglary1
All Crime11

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 Ballingdon. 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 Ballingdon

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Great Cornard (1.24 miles)115
Chilton (2.23 miles)92
Brundon (1.24 miles)63
Newman’s Green (2.24 miles)60
Ballingdon11
Bulmer (1.24 miles)3
Great Henny (1.86 miles)1
Henny Street (1.39 miles)1
Bulmer Tye (1.75 miles)0
Borley (1.75 miles)0

7.01%
of Sudbury South West residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Ballingdon?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Great Cornard44
Chilton38
Brundon27
Newman’s Green27
Ballingdon2
Bulmer1
Great Henny0
Henny Street0
Bulmer Tye0
Borley0

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

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 Ballingdon 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 Ballingdon compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Sudbury North East60
2Sudbury North West59
3Sudbury South East54
4Assington54
5Great Cornard49
6Bures St Mary & Nayland49
7Long Melford35
8Stour Valley North25
9Lavenham23
10Stour Valley South13

Which road in Ballingdon has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
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