Crime Statistics for Parson’s Heath, Colchester, Essex, 2024

There were a total of 354 street level crime incidents in Parson’s Heath in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Parson’s Heath, 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	168
Anti Social Behaviour	38
Shoplifting	31
Other Theft	23
Vehicle Crime	19
Drugs	17
Public Order	16
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Burglary	9
Other Crime	8
Possession Of Weapons	5
Bicycle Theft	4
Robbery	3
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	354

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 Parson’s Heath. 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 Parson’s Heath

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Colchester (1.39 miles)	468
Abbey Field (1.75 miles)	415
Parson’s Heath	354
Greenstead (0.88 miles)	268
Mile End (1.39 miles)	207
Fox Street (0.88 miles)	114
Crockleford Hill (1.24 miles)	94
Berechurch (2.78 miles)	78
Colne (2.11 miles)	68
Crockleford Heath (1.86 miles)	19

Where are the most violent places near Parson’s Heath?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Colchester	176
Abbey Field	168
Parson’s Heath	168
Greenstead	130
Mile End	109
Fox Street	63
Berechurch	46
Crockleford Hill	41
Colne	32
Crockleford Heath	7

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Parson’s Heath?

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 Parson’s Heath 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 Parson’s Heath compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Parson’s Heath and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Parson’s Heath is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Castle	81
2	Greenstead	73
3	Berechurch	73
4	Old Heath and The Hythe	67
5	New Town and Christ Church	64
6	Ardleigh & Little Bromley	51
7	Mile End	50
8	Shrub End	43
9	St Anne's and St John's	42
10	Highwoods	33
11	Wivenhoe	19

Which road in Parson’s Heath has the highest level of crime?

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