Crime Statistics for Brentwood, Essex, 2024

There were a total of 150 street level crime incidents in Brentwood in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Brentwood, 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	46
Vehicle Crime	19
Anti Social Behaviour	16
Criminal Damage Arson	13
Shoplifting	13
Other Theft	11
Public Order	10
Burglary	9
Drugs	7
Robbery	3
Other Crime	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	150

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 Brentwood. 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 Brentwood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Brentwood	150
Warley (0.88 miles)	94
Shenfield (1.39 miles)	83
Brook Street (1.86 miles)	29
Mal Dyke (1.69 miles)	20
South Weald (1.86 miles)	16
Ingrave (1.39 miles)	9
Little Warley (1.86 miles)	8
Great Warley (2.24 miles)	7
Herongate (1.75 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Brentwood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Brentwood	46
Warley	32
Shenfield	21
Brook Street	12
Mal Dyke	6
South Weald	2
Ingrave	2
Little Warley	0
Great Warley	0
Herongate	0

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

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 Brentwood 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 Brentwood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Brentwood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Brentwood is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Gooshays	86
2	South Weald	84
3	Brentwood North	65
4	Brentwood South	65
5	Harold Wood	54
6	Brentwood West	50
7	Warley	43
8	Hutton North	43
9	Hutton East	40
10	Hutton Central	32
11	Hutton South	30

Which road in Brentwood has the highest level of crime?

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