Crime Statistics for Helions Bumpstead, Braintree, Essex, 2024

There were a total of 2 street level crime incidents in Helions Bumpstead in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Vehicle Crime	1
Violent Crime	1
All Crime	2

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 Helions Bumpstead. 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 Helions Bumpstead

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hanchet End (3.1 miles)	53
Calford Green (3.51 miles)	27
Shudy Camps (3.1 miles)	2
Mill Green (3.1 miles)	2
Helions Bumpstead	2
Great Sampford (3.78 miles)	2
Pale Green (0.62 miles)	1
Hempstead (2.24 miles)	1
New England (3.16 miles)	1
Cornish Hall End (3.62 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Helions Bumpstead?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hanchet End	19
Calford Green	13
Helions Bumpstead	1
Hempstead	1
Cornish Hall End	1
Shudy Camps	0
Mill Green	0
Great Sampford	0
Pale Green	0
New England	0

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

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 Helions Bumpstead 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 Helions Bumpstead compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Haverhill South	73
2	Haverhill Central	70
3	Haverhill East	57
4	Haverhill West	52
5	Haverhill North	46
6	Haverhill South East	41
7	Yeldham	30
8	Bumpstead	22
9	The Sampfords	18
10	Balsham	14
11	Debden & Wimbish	5

Which road in Helions Bumpstead has the highest level of crime?

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