Crime Statistics for Gore Pit, Colchester, Essex, 2024

There were a total of 45 street level crime incidents in Gore Pit in March 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Gore Pit, 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	20
Anti Social Behaviour	9
Other Crime	3
Vehicle Crime	3
Drugs	3
Other Theft	2
Burglary	2
Public Order	2
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	45

Map of street level crime incidents in March 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Feering	45
Gore Pit	45
Kelvedon (0.88 miles)	40
Tiptree (2.24 miles)	38
Coggeshall (2.24 miles)	17
Langley Green (1.24 miles)	10
Highfields (1.39 miles)	7
Tiptree Heath (2.56 miles)	4
Coggeshall Hamlet (1.75 miles)	1
Inworth (1.24 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Gore Pit?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Feering	20
Gore Pit	20
Tiptree	19
Kelvedon	16
Coggeshall	10
Langley Green	5
Highfields	2
Tiptree Heath	2
Coggeshall Hamlet	0
Inworth	0

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

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 Gore Pit 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 Gore Pit compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Witham North	63
2	Witham Central	57
3	Witham West	57
4	Silver End & Cressing	57
5	Witham South	51
6	Tiptree	42
7	Coggeshall	31
8	Marks Tey and Layer	28
9	Kelvedon & Feering	24
10	The Colnes	13
11	Great Totham	8

Which road in Gore Pit has the highest level of crime?

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