Crime Statistics for Fiddlers Hamlet, Epping Forest, Essex, 2024

There were a total of 20 street level crime incidents in Fiddlers Hamlet in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Drugs.

Crime Category	Incidents
Vehicle Crime	4
Drugs	4
Burglary	4
Violent Crime	2
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Public Order	1
Other Theft	1
Other Crime	1
Shoplifting	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
All Crime	20

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 Fiddlers Hamlet. 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 Fiddlers Hamlet

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Coopersale Common (0.62 miles)	58
Gernon Bushes (0.62 miles)	58
Epping (1.39 miles)	46
Coopersale Street	20
Fiddlers Hamlet	20
North Weald Bassett (2.24 miles)	19
Ivy Chimneys (1.39 miles)	11
Bell Common (1.86 miles)	5
Hobbs Cross (1.24 miles)	3
Colliers Hatch (1.96 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Fiddlers Hamlet?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Coopersale Common	22
Gernon Bushes	22
Epping	18
North Weald Bassett	8
Coopersale Street	2
Fiddlers Hamlet	2
Bell Common	2
Ivy Chimneys	1
Hobbs Cross	0
Colliers Hatch	0

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

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 Fiddlers Hamlet 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 Fiddlers Hamlet compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Fiddlers Hamlet and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Fiddlers Hamlet is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Waltham Abbey High Beach	89
2	Broadley Common, Epping Upland and Nazeing	84
3	Passingford	82
4	Loughton Fairmead	75
5	Loughton Broadway	66
6	North Weald Bassett	58
7	Epping Lindsey and Thornwood Common	58
8	Theydon Bois	58
9	Epping Hemnall	56
10	Lambourne	53
11	Moreton and Fyfield	46

Which road in Fiddlers Hamlet has the highest level of crime?

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