Crime Statistics for Tarpots, Castle Point, Essex, 2024

There were a total of 59 street level crime incidents in Tarpots in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Tarpots, 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	27
Vehicle Crime	6
Public Order	5
Anti Social Behaviour	5
Burglary	4
Other Crime	3
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Shoplifting	2
Other Theft	2
Drugs	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	59

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 Tarpots. 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 Tarpots

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pitsea (1.86 miles)	362
Chalvedon (1.86 miles)	362
Eversley (1.24 miles)	240
Bowers Gifford (0.62 miles)	138
Thundersley (1.24 miles)	91
New Thundersley (0.88 miles)	67
Tarpots	59
Benfleet (1.84 miles)	52
Hope’s Green (1.39 miles)	45
South Benfleet (1.39 miles)	45

Where are the most violent places near Tarpots?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Pitsea	150
Chalvedon	150
Eversley	94
Bowers Gifford	49
Thundersley	37
Benfleet	28
Tarpots	27
New Thundersley	26
Hope’s Green	25
South Benfleet	25

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

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 Tarpots 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 Tarpots compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Pitsea South East	94
2	Vange	93
3	Pitsea North West	84
4	Fryerns	76
5	Nethermayne	73
6	St Mary's	36
7	St Peter's	31
8	Appleton	29
9	Boyce	29
10	St George's	26
11	Cedar Hall	23

Which road in Tarpots has the highest level of crime?

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