Crime Statistics for Walthamstow, London, Waltham Forest, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Walthamstow in September 2024. There were a total of 4451 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour976
Violent Crime816
Vehicle Crime632
Other Theft400
Theft From The Person348
Criminal Damage Arson252
Public Order204
Shoplifting192
Burglary184
Robbery176
Drugs148
Bicycle Theft76
Other Crime35
Possession Of Weapons12
All Crime4451

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Walthamstow2228
Hale End (1.39 miles)1218
Tottenham Hale (1.86 miles)1008
Upper Clapton (2.24 miles)997
Chingford Hatch (1.96 miles)781
Higham Hill (0.88 miles)770
Lea (Lee) (1.64 miles)756
Highams Park (1.24 miles)655
Wanstead (1.96 miles)380
South Woodford (1.96 miles)270

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Where are the 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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Walthamstow816
Hale End239
Upper Clapton229
Tottenham Hale209
Lea (Lee)187
Chingford Hatch153
Higham Hill126
Wanstead123
Highams Park118
South Woodford75

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

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 Walthamstow 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 Walthamstow compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Markhouse79
2Hoe Street76
3Forest74
4High Street73
5Lea Bridge73
6Higham Hill72
7Chapel End66
8Leyton65
9Hale End and Highams Park65
10Wood Street64
11William Morris61

Which road in Walthamstow has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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