Crime Statistics for Waltham Abbey, Epping Forest, Essex, Jun 2019

The aim of this article is to provide a brief overview of street level crime in Waltham Abbey using the latest Police statistics. Police data is usually published two months in arrears, so June 2019 are the latest figures. The data published by the Police are incidents that were reported to them in that month, not the crimes that were prosecuted and/or had further action taken. In by far the majority of incidents, no further action is taken.

There were a total of 197 street level crime incidents in Waltham Abbey in June 2019. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour. Below are these incidents broken down by category.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Waltham Abbey, 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	63
Anti Social Behaviour	31
Vehicle Crime	29
Burglary	15
Criminal Damage Arson	14
Public Order	14
Other Theft	11
Drugs	9
Shoplifting	5
Bicycle Theft	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Robbery	2
All Crime	197

Map of street level crime incidents in June 2019

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Waltham Abbey. 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 Waltham Abbey

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Holdbrook (1.39 miles)	484
Freezy Water (1.39 miles)	484
Enfield Lock (1.75 miles)	421
Waltham Cross (1.86 miles)	339
New River (2.04 miles)	279
Lea Navigation (0.31 miles)	277
Waltham Abbey	197
Aimes Green (1.39 miles)	80
Lea (Lee) (1.68 miles)	24
Holyfield (1.86 miles)	13

Most violent places near Waltham Abbey

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Enfield Lock	117
Holdbrook	115
Freezy Water	115
Waltham Cross	85
Lea Navigation	75
New River	70
Waltham Abbey	63
Aimes Green	19
Lea (Lee)	2
Holyfield	0