Crime Statistics for Foster Street, Epping Forest, Essex, 2024

There were a total of 65 street level crime incidents in Foster Street in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Foster Street, 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	27
Shoplifting	10
Vehicle Crime	8
Burglary	4
Drugs	4
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Public Order	3
Other Theft	1
All Crime	65

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 Foster Street. 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 Foster Street

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Harlow (1.96 miles)	405
Mark Hall South (1.75 miles)	375
Latton Bush (1.24 miles)	201
Churchgate Street (1.86 miles)	100
Foster Street	65
Hastingwood (0.62 miles)	17
Hobbs Cross (1.39 miles)	17
Carter’s Green (2.24 miles)	6
Tilegate Green (1.24 miles)	3
Magdalen Laver (1.86 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Foster Street?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Harlow	162
Mark Hall South	151
Latton Bush	91
Churchgate Street	30
Foster Street	27
Hobbs Cross	6
Hastingwood	1
Carter’s Green	1
Tilegate Green	0
Magdalen Laver	0

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

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 Foster Street 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 Foster Street compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Foster Street and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Resident in Foster Street have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Netteswell.

#	Ward	Score
1	Netteswell	79
2	Toddbrook	76
3	Staple Tye	76
4	Mark Hall	70
5	Bush Fair	65
6	Harlow Common	64
7	Old Harlow	58
8	North Weald Bassett	58
9	Sumners and Kingsmoor	50
10	Great Parndon	46
11	Church Langley	19

Which road in Foster Street has the highest level of crime?

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