Crime Statistics for Hope’s Green, Castle Point, Essex, 2024

Crime statistics for Hope’s Green, Castle Point

There were a total of 48 street level crime incidents in Hope’s Green in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Hope’s Green, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime23
Criminal Damage Arson5
Anti Social Behaviour4
Other Crime4
Vehicle Crime4
Public Order2
Shoplifting2
Burglary2
Bicycle Theft1
Other Theft1
All Crime48

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 Hope’s Green. 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 Hope’s Green

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Eversley (2.24 miles)219
Bowers Gifford (1.75 miles)120
Canvey Island (1.96 miles)117
Thundersley (1.39 miles)98
New Thundersley (1.86 miles)79
Tarpots (1.39 miles)68
Dutch Village (1.86 miles)59
Benfleet (0.74 miles)51
Hope’s Green48
South Benfleet48

4.49%
of St Mary's (Castle Point) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Hope’s Green?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Eversley91
Canvey Island49
Thundersley46
Bowers Gifford43
New Thundersley31
Tarpots26
Dutch Village24
Hope’s Green23
South Benfleet23
Benfleet22

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Hope’s Green?

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 Hope’s Green 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 Hope’s Green compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hope’s Green and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Hope’s Green is ranked #7.

#WardScore
1Vange93
2Canvey Island Central70
3Canvey Island West60
4Canvey Island Winter Gardens60
5Canvey Island South58
6Canvey Island North38
7St Mary's36
8Corringham and Fobbing35
9Appleton29
10Boyce29
11St George's26

Which road in Hope’s Green has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Hope’s Green with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Loten Road.

Last updated: January 2024
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