Crime Statistics for Walthamstow, London, Waltham Forest, Apr 2022

The aim of this article is to provide a brief overview of street level crime in Walthamstow using the latest Police statistics. Police data is usually published two months in arrears, so April 2022 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 929 street level crime incidents in Walthamstow in April 2022. 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 Walthamstow, 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	226
Anti Social Behaviour	223
Other Theft	109
Vehicle Crime	85
Criminal Damage Arson	54
Public Order	44
Theft From The Person	40
Burglary	37
Drugs	35
Shoplifting	29
Robbery	18
Bicycle Theft	16
Possession Of Weapons	9
Other Crime	4
All Crime	929

Map of street level crime incidents in April 2022

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Tottenham Hale (1.86 miles)	1094
Walthamstow	929
Upper Clapton (2.24 miles)	859
Lea (Lee) (1.64 miles)	828
Higham Hill (0.88 miles)	739
Highams Park (1.24 miles)	672
Hale End (1.39 miles)	584
Chingford Hatch (1.96 miles)	484
Wanstead (1.96 miles)	325
South Woodford (1.96 miles)	280

Most violent places near Walthamstow

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tottenham Hale	264
Walthamstow	226
Lea (Lee)	220
Upper Clapton	199
Higham Hill	162
Highams Park	153
Hale End	128
Chingford Hatch	111
Wanstead	76
South Woodford	49