Crime Statistics for Hornchurch, London, Havering, 2025

Is Hornchurch rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 184 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Hornchurch, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime51
Shoplifting27
Vehicle Crime21
Anti Social Behaviour20
Public Order16
Other Theft11
Drugs11
Criminal Damage Arson7
Robbery7
Burglary5
Theft From The Person4
Other Crime2
Bicycle Theft2
All Crime184

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Heath Park (1.39 miles)799
South Hornchurch (2.24 miles)320
Rush Green (1.96 miles)318
Ardleigh Green (1.86 miles)220
Emerson Park (1.39 miles)199
Hornchurch184
Upminster (1.96 miles)136
Cranham (2.55 miles)85
Corbets Tey (1.39 miles)35
Hacton (1.39 miles)33

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Where are the most violent places near Hornchurch?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Heath Park256
Rush Green116
South Hornchurch103
Emerson Park73
Ardleigh Green53
Hornchurch51
Upminster40
Cranham20
Corbets Tey16
Hacton9

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

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 Hornchurch 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 Hornchurch compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1South Hornchurch68
2Village68
3Eastbrook58
4Elm Park52
5St Andrew's47
6Hylands47
7Squirrel's Heath43
8Upminster41
9Cranham31
10Hacton28
11Emerson Park28

Which road in Hornchurch has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2025
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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