Crime in RM16 5

The RM16 5 postcode sector, in the RM (Romford) postcode area, with most records published by Essex Police.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 73 street-crime records for RM16 5 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 17.7% more than in the 12 months before. Police locations are approximate.

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Last 12 published months

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

Street-crime records

Share of RM16

1.2%

Year-on-year

+17.7%

RM16 5 holds 1.2% of the 5,849 records assigned to RM16 in the same window.

Month-by-month totals

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	5
October 2025	7
November 2025	3
December 2025	6
January 2026	6
February 2026	5
March 2026	10
April 2026	7
May 2026	7
June 2026	8
July 2026	3
August 2026	6

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

742 people lived here in the Census 2021, fewer than 1,000: too few residents for a stable rate, so no rate is shown.

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

Category mix compared

Each column is a share of that area's own records in the same window, so areas of different sizes compare fairly. Force: Essex Police.

Category	RM16 5	RM16	Force
Anti-social behaviour	27.4%	12.2%	11.7%
Vehicle crime	21.9%	10.2%	6.2%
Violence and sexual offences	16.4%	30.1%	40.4%
Criminal damage and arson	11.0%	9.0%	7.5%
Public order	8.2%	5.3%	6.6%
Drugs	6.8%	4.5%	4.1%
Other crime	2.7%	2.0%	2.0%
Bicycle theft	1.4%	0.9%	0.7%

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for RM16 5 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year	Street-crime records
2021	37
2022	48
2023	62
2024	49
2025	64
2026 (part year)	52

Limits to keep in mind

Published locations are approximate; they are snapped to anonymous map points before release, and each record is assigned to a sector by its nearest postcode. A sector is small, so counts near its edges are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Full detail is on the methodology page and in what a postcode district crime page shows, which covers sectors too.

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Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district in Essex

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 742 Census 2021 residents of RM16 5.

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%.

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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.

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This page updates as new months are published, so a citation needs the months shown and the date you read it. One click selects the whole citation. The CSV holds this page's monthly and category figures for RM16 5 postcode sector, with the same source and months.

CrimeMapsUK. RM16 5 postcode sector: 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/sectors/rm16-5/

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