Crime Statistics for St Osyth, Tendring, Essex, 2024

There were a total of 16 street level crime incidents in St Osyth in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in St Osyth, 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	10
Other Theft	2
Vehicle Crime	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Public Order	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	16

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 St Osyth. 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 St Osyth

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Great Clacton (3.16 miles)	418
Clacton-on-Sea (3.1 miles)	368
Rush Green (2.48 miles)	316
Bocking’s Elm (1.96 miles)	80
Jaywick in Essex (2.23 miles)	56
Brightlingsea (2.77 miles)	50
Cindery Island (2 miles)	46
St Osyth	16
Row Heath (3.1 miles)	4
Point Clear (1.96 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near St Osyth?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Great Clacton	217
Clacton-on-Sea	193
Rush Green	164
Bocking’s Elm	48
Jaywick in Essex	31
Brightlingsea	26
Cindery Island	23
St Osyth	10
Row Heath	1
Point Clear	1

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

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 St Osyth 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 St Osyth compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to St Osyth and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. St Osyth is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Pier	98
2	St James	87
3	Coppins	86
4	St Osyth	75
5	St John's	72
6	St Paul's	71
7	West Clacton & Jaywick Sands	71
8	Bluehouse	67
9	Cann Hall	51
10	Burrsville	50
11	Brightlingsea	48

Which road in St Osyth has the highest level of crime?

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