Crime Statistics for Chelmer, Chelmsford, Essex, 2024

There were a total of 22 street level crime incidents in Chelmer in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Vehicle Crime	7
Violent Crime	5
Public Order	3
Other Theft	3
Other Crime	1
Drugs	1
Shoplifting	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
All Crime	22

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 Chelmer. 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 Chelmer

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Springfield (2.64 miles)	445
Great Baddow (3.03 miles)	152
Chelmer Village (1.72 miles)	97
Runsell Green (3.29 miles)	29
Boreham (0.22 miles)	27
Chelmer	22
Danbury (2.55 miles)	13
Horne Row (3.12 miles)	10
Nounsley (2.49 miles)	9
Little Baddow (1.54 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Chelmer?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Springfield	148
Great Baddow	65
Chelmer Village	49
Runsell Green	16
Boreham	7
Danbury	6
Chelmer	5
Horne Row	5
Little Baddow	2
Nounsley	1

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

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 Chelmer 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 Chelmer compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Chelmer and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Chelmer is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Trinity	56
2	Moulsham and Central	56
3	Marconi	50
4	Springfield North	41
5	Great Baddow East	41
6	Great Baddow West	38
7	The Lawns	37
8	Boreham and The Leighs	36
9	Little Baddow, Danbury and Sandon	32
10	Chelmer Village and Beaulieu Park	29
11	Wickham Bishops and Woodham	23

Which road in Chelmer has the highest level of crime?

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