Crime Statistics for Birchhall Corner, Colchester, Essex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Birchhall Corner in August 2024. There were a total of 4 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Other Theft.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Criminal Damage Arson1
Other Theft1
Public Order1
Violent Crime1
All Crime4

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Ardleigh (0.88 miles)11
Ardleigh Reservoir (0.33 miles)10
Burnt Heath (1.75 miles)7
Hornestreet (1.75 miles)5
Langham (1.39 miles)5
Ardleigh Heath4
Birchhall Corner4
Lamb Corner (0.62 miles)3
Foxash Estate (1.86 miles)3
Parney Heath (0.62 miles)3

8.43%
of Ardleigh & Little Bromley residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Birchhall Corner?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Ardleigh4
Ardleigh Reservoir4
Burnt Heath3
Hornestreet3
Langham2
Ardleigh Heath1
Birchhall Corner1
Lamb Corner0
Foxash Estate0
Parney Heath0

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

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 Birchhall Corner 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 Birchhall Corner compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Birchhall Corner and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Birchhall Corner is ranked #3.

#WardScore
1Castle81
2Greenstead73
3Ardleigh & Little Bromley51
4Mile End50
5St Anne's and St John's42
6Lawford, Manningtree & Mistley40
7Highwoods33
8Rural North24
9Alresford & Elmstead24
10Wivenhoe19
11East Bergholt16

Which road in Birchhall Corner has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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