Crime Statistics for Fairlop, London, Redbridge, 2024

Crime statistics for Fairlop, London

There were a total of 256 street level crime incidents in Fairlop in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Fairlop, 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 Crime76
Anti Social Behaviour39
Vehicle Crime37
Other Theft21
Burglary15
Criminal Damage Arson15
Shoplifting14
Public Order12
Theft From The Person11
Robbery7
Other Crime5
Drugs3
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime256

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Fairlop. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Fairlop

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Newbury Park (1.39 miles)828
Little Heath (1.75 miles)546
Barkingside (0.88 miles)413
Aldborough Hatch (0.62 miles)395
Fullwell Cross (0.62 miles)293
Fairlop256
Hainault (0.62 miles)250
Grange Hill (1.39 miles)198
Chigwell Row (1.96 miles)116
Marks Gate (1.86 miles)109

39.87%
of Fairlop residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Fairlop?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Newbury Park214
Little Heath205
Aldborough Hatch147
Barkingside126
Fullwell Cross105
Hainault89
Grange Hill79
Fairlop76
Marks Gate40
Chigwell Row39

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

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 Fairlop 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 Fairlop compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Fairlop and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Fairlop is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1Goodmayes76
2Seven Kings70
3Grange Hill69
4Hainault68
5Mayfield67
6Fairlop61
7Aldborough59
8Fullwell55
9Barkingside54
10Chadwell50
11Newbury50

Which road in Fairlop has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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