Crime Statistics for Layer de la Haye, Colchester, Essex, 2024

There were a total of 6 street level crime incidents in Layer de la Haye in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Violent Crime	1
Other Theft	1
Other Crime	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	6

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 Layer de la Haye. 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 Layer de la Haye

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Berechurch (1.75 miles)	95
Shrub End (1.86 miles)	69
Blackheath (1.96 miles)	64
Maypole Green (1.39 miles)	54
Layer de la Haye	6
Layer Breton (2.23 miles)	4
Birch (1.96 miles)	4
Birch Green (2.23 miles)	4
Abberton (1.96 miles)	2
Abberton Reservoir (1.18 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Layer de la Haye?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Berechurch	63
Blackheath	38
Maypole Green	37
Shrub End	36
Layer de la Haye	1
Layer Breton	1
Birch	1
Birch Green	1
Abberton	1
Abberton Reservoir	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Layer de la Haye?

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 Layer de la Haye 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 Layer de la Haye compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Layer de la Haye and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Layer de la Haye is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Castle	81
2	Berechurch	73
3	Old Heath and The Hythe	67
4	New Town and Christ Church	64
5	Shrub End	43
6	Stanway	43
7	Lexden and Braiswick	29
8	Marks Tey and Layer	28
9	Prettygate	24
10	Mersea and Pyefleet	21
11	Wivenhoe	19

Which road in Layer de la Haye has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Layer de la Haye with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Lacewing Green.