Crime Statistics for Gosfield, Braintree, Essex, 2024

Crime statistics for Gosfield, Braintree

There were a total of 3 street level crime incidents in Gosfield in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Burglary, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Burglary2
Violent Crime1
All Crime3

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Gosfield. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Gosfield

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Halstead (1.96 miles)89
Bocking Churchstreet (2.78 miles)63
High Garrett (1.96 miles)14
Cobbs Fenn (2.56 miles)7
Southey Green (1.96 miles)5
Tumbler’s Green (2.78 miles)4
Gosfield3
Plaistow Green (1.39 miles)1
Beazley End (2.48 miles)1
Greenstead Green (2.55 miles)0

3.18%
of Gosfield & Greenstead Green residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Gosfield?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Halstead35
Bocking Churchstreet32
High Garrett5
Cobbs Fenn3
Southey Green3
Tumbler’s Green1
Gosfield1
Beazley End1
Plaistow Green0
Greenstead Green0

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

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 Gosfield 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 Gosfield compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Bocking South59
2Braintree Central & Beckers Green59
3Bocking North52
4Halstead Trinity46
5Braintree West38
6Halstead St Andrew's34
7Bocking Blackwater34
8Coggeshall31
9Gosfield & Greenstead Green25
10Hedingham19
11Three Fields13

Which road in Gosfield has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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