Annual crime rate in Essex county is 3.3 crimes per annum per 1000 workday people as of April 2024. Compared to the national crime rate, Essex's crime rate is at 121%. Drugs crime makes up 3.1% of all crimes reported in the county. The total number of "drugs crime" is 5.3k, and this number has increased by 1.6% when compared year-over-year in the period of March 2023 - February 2024.
Drugs crime rate is 3.3 crimes reported per 1,000 working people per annum. It's the 8. highest crime rate out of 52 England and Wales' counties.
The total number of "drugs crime" is 5.3k, and this number has increased by 1.6% when compared year-over-year in the period of March 2023 - February 2024. In the graph below, county are compared by crime rate and crime rate percentage change. Crime rate percentage change compares the county crime rate between March 2023 - February 2024 to the county crime rate in the previous 12 months. The size of the circle reflects the number of total crimes reported. The bigger the circle, the higher the number of crimes reported in the county.
Crime rate percentage changeNumber of crime incidents by month from January 2011 to February 2024.
Annual crime rate per 1000 workday people
Total number of crimes reported in a given calendar month (1 = January … 12 = December) in the previous five years, i.e. from 2019 till 2023.
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