Crime Statistics for Sible Hedingham, Braintree, Essex, 2024

There were a total of 29 street level crime incidents in Sible Hedingham in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Sible Hedingham, 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	12
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Vehicle Crime	3
Other Theft	3
Shoplifting	3
Public Order	2
Burglary	2
Anti Social Behaviour	1
All Crime	29

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 Sible Hedingham. 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 Sible Hedingham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Castle Hedingham (0.88 miles)	34
Sible Hedingham	29
Rushley Green (1.39 miles)	18
Cobbs Fenn (0.62 miles)	12
Man’s Cross (2.78 miles)	6
Great Yeldham (2.56 miles)	6
Little Maplestead (3.1 miles)	2
Great Maplestead (1.86 miles)	1
Southey Green (1.24 miles)	0
Brickkiln Green (3.1 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Sible Hedingham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Castle Hedingham	14
Sible Hedingham	12
Rushley Green	11
Cobbs Fenn	2
Man’s Cross	2
Great Yeldham	2
Little Maplestead	1
Great Maplestead	0
Southey Green	0
Brickkiln Green	0

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

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 Sible Hedingham 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 Sible Hedingham compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Bocking South	59
2	Bocking North	52
3	Halstead Trinity	46
4	Halstead St Andrew's	34
5	Bocking Blackwater	34
6	Coggeshall	31
7	Yeldham	30
8	Gosfield & Greenstead Green	25
9	Hedingham	19
10	Stour Valley South	13
11	Three Fields	13

Which road in Sible Hedingham has the highest level of crime?

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