Crime Statistics for Greensted, Epping Forest, Essex, 2024

Crime statistics for Greensted, Epping Forest

There were a total of 1 street level crime incidents in in February 2024. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Criminal Damage Arson1
All Crime1

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 Greensted. 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 Greensted

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Chipping Ongar (1.39 miles)29
Marden Ash (1.24 miles)20
Hallsford Bridge (1.86 miles)16
Bovinger (1.96 miles)5
Lower Bobbingworth Green (1.96 miles)5
Colliers Hatch (1.86 miles)2
Little End (1.39 miles)1
Toot Hill (1.24 miles)1
Greensted1
Greensted Green (0.88 miles)1

4.66%
of Chipping Ongar, Greensted and Marden Ash residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Greensted?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Chipping Ongar12
Marden Ash6
Hallsford Bridge5
Bovinger1
Lower Bobbingworth Green1
Colliers Hatch0
Little End0
Toot Hill0
Greensted0
Greensted Green0

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

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 Greensted 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 Greensted compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Passingford82
2Shelley62
3North Weald Bassett58
4Epping Lindsey and Thornwood Common58
5Theydon Bois58
6Pilgrims Hatch57
7Epping Hemnall56
8Chipping Ongar, Greensted and Marden Ash53
9Moreton and Fyfield46
10Brizes and Doddinghurst30
11Tipps Cross24

Which road in Greensted has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: February 2024
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