Crime Statistics for Colchester, Essex, October 2020

The aim of this article is to provide a brief overview of street level crime in Colchester using the latest Police statistics. Police data is usually published two months in arrears, so November 2020 are the latest figures. The data published by the Police are incidents that were reported to them in that month, not the crimes that were prosecuted and/or had further action taken. In by far the majority of incidents, no further action is taken.

There were a total of 501 street level crime incidents in Colchester in November 2020. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime. Below are these incidents broken down by category.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	167
Violent Crime	143
Public Order	37
Criminal Damage Arson	31
Drugs	27
Bicycle Theft	23
Shoplifting	22
Other Theft	17
Burglary	12
Vehicle Crime	8
Robbery	5
Other Crime	4
Theft From The Person	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	501

Map of street level crime incidents in November 2020

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Parson’s Heath (1.39 miles)	516
Greenstead (1.86 miles)	506
Colchester	501
Abbey Field (0.62 miles)	454
Mile End (1.24 miles)	236
Fox Street (2.23 miles)	204
Berechurch (1.86 miles)	126
Colne (1 miles)	106
Shrub End (1.75 miles)	98
Maypole Green (1.96 miles)	81

11.2%
of Colchester residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2011 Census

Most violent places near Colchester

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