Crime Statistics for Basildon, Essex, 2024

There were a total of 519 street level crime incidents in Basildon in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Basildon, 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	219
Anti Social Behaviour	53
Shoplifting	45
Criminal Damage Arson	41
Vehicle Crime	38
Public Order	34
Drugs	25
Burglary	23
Other Theft	22
Other Crime	9
Theft From The Person	4
Robbery	4
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	519

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 Basildon. 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 Basildon

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Basildon	519
Felmore	487
Barstable (1.39 miles)	425
Fryerns (0.62 miles)	389
Chalvedon (0.62 miles)	362
Pitsea (0.62 miles)	330
Burnt Mills (0.62 miles)	320
Eversley (0.88 miles)	219
Bowers Gifford (1.39 miles)	138
Nevendon (1.75 miles)	81

Where are the most violent places near Basildon?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Basildon	219
Felmore	194
Barstable	176
Fryerns	173
Pitsea	153
Chalvedon	150
Burnt Mills	117
Eversley	91
Bowers Gifford	49
Nevendon	35

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

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 Basildon 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 Basildon compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Basildon and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Basildon is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Martin's	94
2	Pitsea South East	94
3	Lee Chapel North	93
4	Vange	93
5	Pitsea North West	84
6	Fryerns	76
7	Nethermayne	73
8	Wickford Castledon	55
9	Wickford Park	44
10	Appleton	29
11	St George's	26

Which road in Basildon has the highest level of crime?

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