Crime Statistics for Pleshey, Chelmsford, Essex, 2024

There were a total of 3 street level crime incidents in in February 2024. The largest category was Burglary.

Crime Category	Incidents
Burglary	3
All Crime	3

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 Pleshey. 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 Pleshey

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Minnow End (2.77 miles)	46
Broad’s Green (2.24 miles)	34
Great Waltham (1.96 miles)	7
Stagden Cross (1.86 miles)	5
Fanner’s Green (1.39 miles)	4
High Easter (2.48 miles)	3
Pleshey	3
Good Easter (2.77 miles)	2
Breeds (1.75 miles)	2
Littley Green (2.63 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Pleshey?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Minnow End	26
Broad’s Green	23
Great Waltham	2
Fanner’s Green	1
Breeds	1
Stagden Cross	0
High Easter	0
Pleshey	0
Good Easter	0
Littley Green	0

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

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 Pleshey 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 Pleshey compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	St Andrews	56
2	Marconi	50
3	High Ongar, Willingale and The Rodings	48
4	Patching Hall	48
5	Springfield North	41
6	Writtle	41
7	Broomfield and The Walthams	40
8	The Lawns	37
9	Chelmsford Rural West	33
10	Felsted & Stebbing	25
11	High Easter & the Rodings	19

Which road in Pleshey has the highest level of crime?

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