Crime Statistics for Waltham Abbey, Epping Forest, Essex, Apr 2020

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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 May 2020 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 225 street level crime incidents in Waltham Abbey in May 2020. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime. Below are these incidents broken down by category.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	69
Violent Crime	65
Public Order	22
Criminal Damage Arson	19
Other Theft	11
Vehicle Crime	11
Burglary	8
Drugs	8
Shoplifting	4
Robbery	2
Theft From The Person	2
Other Crime	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	225

Map of street level crime incidents in May 2020

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
Enfield Lock (1.75 miles)	583
Holdbrook (1.39 miles)	550
Freezy Water (1.39 miles)	550
Waltham Cross (1.86 miles)	371
Lea Navigation (0.31 miles)	302
New River (2.04 miles)	298
Waltham Abbey	225
Aimes Green (1.39 miles)	91
Lea (Lee) (1.68 miles)	31
Holyfield (1.86 miles)	10

9.1%
of Epping Forest residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2011 Census

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.