Crime Statistics for Great Waltham, Chelmsford, Essex, 2024

There were a total of 7 street level crime incidents in Great Waltham in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Vehicle Crime	2
Violent Crime	2
All Crime	7

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 Great Waltham. 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 Great Waltham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Parsonage Green (1.96 miles)	96
Blasford Hill (1.39 miles)	48
Minnow End (0.88 miles)	46
Little Waltham (0.88 miles)	46
Broad’s Green (0.62 miles)	34
Great Waltham	7
Fanner’s Green (1.39 miles)	4
Pleshey (1.96 miles)	3
Breeds (0.88 miles)	2
Chatham Green (1.75 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Great Waltham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Parsonage Green	37
Blasford Hill	27
Minnow End	26
Little Waltham	26
Broad’s Green	23
Great Waltham	2
Fanner’s Green	1
Breeds	1
Pleshey	0
Chatham Green	0

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

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 Great Waltham 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 Great Waltham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Great Waltham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Great Waltham is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Trinity	56
2	St Andrews	56
3	Moulsham and Central	56
4	Marconi	50
5	Patching Hall	48
6	Springfield North	41
7	Writtle	41
8	Broomfield and The Walthams	40
9	The Lawns	37
10	Boreham and The Leighs	36
11	Felsted & Stebbing	25

Which road in Great Waltham has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Great Waltham with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Great Waltham FP101.