Crime Statistics for Harlow, Essex, 2025

Is Harlow rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 434 incidents. 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 Harlow, 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	160
Shoplifting	51
Public Order	37
Criminal Damage Arson	30
Other Theft	29
Anti Social Behaviour	29
Drugs	28
Vehicle Crime	25
Other Crime	16
Burglary	11
Theft From The Person	5
Robbery	5
Possession Of Weapons	4
Bicycle Theft	4
All Crime	434

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Mark Hall South (0.88 miles)	560
Harlow	417
Netteswell (0.62 miles)	388
Little Parndon (1.39 miles)	300
Passmores (0.88 miles)	238
Latton Bush (0.88 miles)	216
Mark Hall North (1.39 miles)	190
Hare Street (1.24 miles)	132
Great Parndon (1.39 miles)	88
Pinnacles (1.86 miles)	48

Where are the most violent places near Harlow?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Mark Hall South	200
Netteswell	184
Harlow	160
Little Parndon	138
Passmores	103
Latton Bush	86
Mark Hall North	81
Hare Street	68
Great Parndon	41
Pinnacles	19

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

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 Harlow 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 Harlow compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Harlow and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Harlow is ranked #5.

#	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	Little Parndon and Hare Street	54
8	Hunsdon	54
9	Sumners and Kingsmoor	50
10	Great Parndon	46
11	Church Langley	19

Which road in Harlow has the highest level of crime?

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