Crime Statistics for Little Bentley, Tendring, Essex, 2024

Crime statistics for Little Bentley, Tendring

There were a total of 4 street level crime incidents in in January 2024. The largest category was Violent Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Little Bentley, 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 Crime4
All Crime4

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 Little Bentley. 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 Little Bentley

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Goose Green (1.86 miles)5
Tendring Green (1.86 miles)5
Raven’s Green (0.88 miles)4
Tendring Heath (1.39 miles)4
Little Bentley4
Hare Green (1.39 miles)4
Great Bromley (1.96 miles)3
Horsley Cross (1.39 miles)1
Balls Green (1.75 miles)0
Frating Green (1.75 miles)0

5.16%
of Weeley & Tendring residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Little Bentley?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Goose Green5
Tendring Green5
Tendring Heath4
Little Bentley4
Raven’s Green2
Hare Green2
Great Bromley1
Horsley Cross1
Balls Green0
Frating Green0

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

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 Little Bentley 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 Little Bentley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Little Bentley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Residents in Little Bentley have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is East Bergholt.

#WardScore
1Weeley & Tendring56
2Ardleigh & Little Bromley51
3The Bentleys & Frating48
4Brightlingsea48
5Thorpe, Beaumont & Great Holland45
6Stour Valley45
7Lawford, Manningtree & Mistley40
8Little Clacton31
9The Oakleys & Wix26
10Alresford & Elmstead24
11East Bergholt16

Which road in Little Bentley has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
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