CM19 crime rate and statistics

The CM19 postcode district, in the CM (Chelmsford) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 1,705 street-crime records for CM19 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 20.8% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 81.8 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 89.7 for Essex Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.

Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

1,705

Latest month (August 2026)

195

Year-on-year

+20.8%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 126
October 2025 108
November 2025 147
December 2025 110
January 2026 117
February 2026 151
March 2026 117
April 2026 155
May 2026 141
June 2026 138
July 2026 200
August 2026 195

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.

CM19

81.8

Essex Police

89.7

1,705 records and 20,843 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.

No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.

Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.

Top crime categories

Share of CM19 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.

Where records cluster in CM19

Published street-crime records in CM19, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of CM19: the east 873, the south-east 646, the north-east 391, the north-west 79, the north 44, the south 19, the south-west 16, the west 6.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 290 m across, the size the crime map uses zoomed in, and holds at least one of CM19's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and CM19's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of CM19 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore CM19 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for CM19 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 1,918
2022 1,915
2023 1,730
2024 1,504
2025 1,420
2026 (part year) 1,214

Is CM19 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for CM19 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in CM19 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.

Limits to keep in mind

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Police forces

CM19's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Essex Police (99.1%), Hertfordshire Constabulary (0.5%), Metropolitan Police (0.4%), Norfolk Constabulary (0.1%) and Suffolk Constabulary (0.1%).

Postcode sectors in CM19

Each sector is the outward code plus the first digit of the inward code. Counts cover the same trailing window.

Sector Street-crime records
CM19 4 955
CM19 5 750

Council areas

CM19 is mostly in the Harlow council area, and also covers parts of the Epping Forest council area. A council area page counts every record in the council's whole area, not just this district.

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 20,843 Census 2021 residents of CM19.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 0.0% in the least deprived 20%.

Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas.

Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.

About CM19 beyond crime

Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the methodology page.

House prices

Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.

YearAll sales
2026 (part year) £345,000 (87)
2025 £350,000 (206)
2024 £330,000 (197)
2023 £327,000 (172)
2022 £330,000 (226)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £547,500 (14) £428,000 (17) £340,000 (40) £175,000 (16)
2025 £605,000 (26) £425,000 (33) £340,000 (116) £175,000 (31)
2024 £532,500 (26) £400,000 (34) £325,000 (102) £170,000 (35)
2023 £602,500 (16) £435,000 (29) £325,000 (101) £193,250 (26)
2022 £675,000 (30) £430,000 (41) £325,000 (115) £181,000 (40)

Schools and colleges

7 open establishments with a postcode in CM19, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 7 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Hare Street Community Primary School and Nursery Primary Community school
Jerounds Primary Academy Primary Academy sponsor led
Katherines Primary Academy and Nursery Primary Academy sponsor led
Milwards Primary School and Nursery Primary Academy sponsor led
Roydon Primary Academy Primary Academy sponsor led
St Luke's Catholic Academy Primary Academy sponsor led
Water Lane Primary Academy Primary Academy sponsor led

Flood risk from rivers and the sea

Postcodes in England with properties in each band (Environment Agency), counted by the highest long-term risk band of any property in the postcode. Postcodes not listed have no property in a rivers-and-sea risk area, and postcodes outside England are not covered. Risk applies to the area around an address, not the address itself. Surface-water risk is not published by postcode. Edition: NaFRA2, revised 18 Jun 2026.

Highest bandPostcodes
High5
Medium1
Low7
Very low2

Broadband

Share of the 395 postcodes in CM19 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.

ServiceEvery premisesSome premises
Gigabit57.2%80.0%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)80.5%92.9%

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CrimeMapsUK. CM19 postcode district: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/districts/cm19/

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