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

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 February 2021 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 174 street level crime incidents in Waltham Abbey in February 2021. 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	52
Violent Crime	49
Vehicle Crime	20
Criminal Damage Arson	13
Other Theft	13
Public Order	9
Burglary	5
Drugs	5
Robbery	4
Shoplifting	4
All Crime	174

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2021

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)	405
Freezy Water (1.39 miles)	405
Enfield Lock (1.75 miles)	393
Waltham Cross (1.86 miles)	269
Lea Navigation (0.31 miles)	245
New River (2.04 miles)	229
Waltham Abbey	174
Aimes Green (1.39 miles)	53
Lea (Lee) (1.68 miles)	12
Holyfield (1.86 miles)	6

9.1%
of 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.