Crime Statistics for Lower Sheering, Epping Forest, Essex, 2024

There were a total of 27 street level crime incidents in Lower Sheering in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Lower Sheering, 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	9
Vehicle Crime	7
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Burglary	1
Robbery	1
Shoplifting	1
Public Order	1
Other Theft	1
All Crime	27

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Churchgate Street (1.96 miles)	100
Campions (1.39 miles)	99
Stort (0.4 miles)	51
Stort (0.62 miles)	45
Lower Sheering	27
Spellbrook (1.96 miles)	24
Ardley End (1.86 miles)	19
Gaston Green (1.86 miles)	15
Newman’s End (1.75 miles)	6
Sheering (0.88 miles)	5

Where are the most violent places near Lower Sheering?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Churchgate Street	30
Campions	30
Stort	16
Spellbrook	13
Ardley End	10
Lower Sheering	9
Gaston Green	7
Newman’s End	1
Sheering	1

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

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 Lower Sheering 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 Lower Sheering compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lower Sheering and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Resident in Lower Sheering have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Netteswell.

#	Ward	Score
1	Netteswell	79
2	Mark Hall	70
3	Harlow Common	64
4	Old Harlow	58
5	Hastingwood, Matching and Sheering Village	55
6	Hunsdon	54
7	Sawbridgeworth	34
8	Much Hadham	23
9	Church Langley	19
10	Bishop's Stortford South	15
11	Lower Sheering	8

Which road in Lower Sheering has the highest level of crime?

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