Crime Statistics for South Benfleet, Castle Point, Essex, 2024

There were a total of 45 street level crime incidents in South Benfleet 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 South Benfleet, 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	25
Anti Social Behaviour	5
Public Order	5
Shoplifting	4
Vehicle Crime	3
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Burglary	1
Other Theft	1
All Crime	45

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 South Benfleet. 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 South Benfleet

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Eversley (2.24 miles)	240
Bowers Gifford (1.75 miles)	138
Canvey Island (1.96 miles)	98
Thundersley (1.39 miles)	91
New Thundersley (1.86 miles)	67
Tarpots (1.39 miles)	59
Dutch Village (1.86 miles)	58
Benfleet (0.74 miles)	52
Hope’s Green	45
South Benfleet	45

Where are the most violent places near South Benfleet?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Eversley	94
Bowers Gifford	49
Canvey Island	38
Thundersley	37
Benfleet	28
Tarpots	27
New Thundersley	26
Hope’s Green	25
South Benfleet	25
Dutch Village	24

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

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 South Benfleet 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 South Benfleet compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to South Benfleet and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. South Benfleet is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Vange	93
2	Canvey Island Central	70
3	Canvey Island West	60
4	Canvey Island Winter Gardens	60
5	Canvey Island South	58
6	Canvey Island North	38
7	St Mary's	36
8	Corringham and Fobbing	35
9	Appleton	29
10	Boyce	29
11	St George's	26

Which road in South Benfleet has the highest level of crime?

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