Harlow crime rate Drugs
Jukes Estate Agents Harlow continue their in depth look at crime rates in Harlow and where it sits in the bigger picture of Essex and surrounding areas.
Sales and Marketing Director Geoff Flewers explains why: “Harlow often gets a bad press and whilst some of it is deserved, some of it definitely is not! We thought we would look at crime rates in Harlow and see how it compares to the rest of Essex & some close by towns. I accept that even one crime is one too many BUT, Harlow in the main does not come out too badly. We will look at various crimes in different blogs”.
Firstly, Anti Social Behaviour was our first blog that was published on 12th February
Secondly, Burglary was done on the same day
Our third blog on 13th February we looked at Criminal Damage & Arson.
Today we will look at Drugs.
Then it will be Possession of Weapons.
Followed by Robbery.
Then it’s Vehicle Theft.
Penultimately Violent Crime.
Finally, we will look at All Crimes.
Drugs
Many people think that Harlow will top the charts for all types of crimes in Essex. The following data is for the last 12 months and is supplied by Plumpot (https://a.plumplot.co.uk/).
For these blogs Jukes Estate Agents look at all towns and postcodes within Essex and occasionally, towns that are close to Harlow. Below is the top 9 or10 hotspots (Stansted Airport is nearly always in the top spot as a lot of certain crime happens at airports, if this is the case then we only highlight the top 9).
- Southend on Sea SS1 2. This postcode recorded 608% of the national crime rate for Drugs.
- Grays RM16 5. This postcode recorded 372% of the national crime rate for Drugs.
- Chelmsford CM1 1. This postcode recorded 361% of the national crime rate for Drugs.
- Southend on Sea SS1 1. This postcode recorded 336% of the national crime rate for Drugs.
- Southend on Sea SS2 5. This postcode recorded 324% of the national crime rate for Drugs.
- Southend on Sea SS0 7. This postcode recorded 313% of the national crime rate for Drugs.
- Clacton on Sea CO15 1. This postcode recorded 309% of the national crime rate for Drugs.
- Braintree CM7 3. This postcode recorded 286% of the national crime rate for Drugs.
- Colchester CO1 1. This postcode recorded 284% of the national crime rate for Drugs.
Other relevant postcodes:
Bishops’s Stortford CM23 2. This postcode recorded 102% of the national crime rate for Drugs.
Bishops’s Stortford CM23 3. This postcode recorded 68% of the national crime rate for Drugs.
Bishops’s Stortford CM23 5. This postcode recorded 46% of the national crime rate for Drugs.
Bishops’s Stortford CM23 4. This postcode recorded 29% of the national crime rate for Drugs.
Sawbridgeworth CM21 0. This postcode recorded 29% of the national crime rate for Drugs.
How did Harlow fair?
Once again Harlow has none of its 9 postcode sectors in the top 10. Once again we reiterate that one case of a drugs crime it one too many but here is how Harlow stands:
The four postcode sectors below all appear in the top 25 Essex hot spots for Drug Crime:
CM20 1. This postcode recorded 249% of the national crime rate for Drugs.
CM20 3. This postcode recorded 229% of the national crime rate for Drugs.
CM17 9. This postcode recorded 210% of the national crime rate for Drugs.
CM18 7. This postcode recorded 249% of the national crime rate for Drugs.
The two postcode sectors below both appear in the top 50 Essex hot spots for Drug Crime:
CM17 0. This postcode recorded 169% of the national crime rate for Drugs.
CM18 6. This postcode recorded 167% of the national crime rate for Drugs.
The three postcode sectors below both appear in the top 100 Essex hot spots for Drug Crime:
CM19 4. This postcode recorded 122% of the national crime rate for Drugs.
CM19 5. This postcode recorded 101% of the national crime rate for Drugs.
CM20 2. This postcode recorded 97% of the national crime rate for Drugs.
Conclusion
We bet that a lot of Harlow residents thought that Harlow would appear in the top 10 hot spots for Essex drug offences and yet once again, although these figures show that there is a drug problem in many places, Harlow has no sectors in the top ten and under half of its sectors appear in the top 25.