Total Crime Rate
42.5 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
25.5 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Tilbury Mead area has the 11th lowest crime rate of 63 local areas in Bush Fair , and the 63rd lowest crime rate of 246 local areas in Harlow .
Compared with the surrounding streets, this postcode does not stand out as either a particular hotspot or an unusually safe pocket. Crime levels in the neighbouring output areas are broadly in line with this area.
The overall crime rate in the area around Tilbury Mead (CM18 6JG) in the last 12 months was 42.5 per 1,000 residents and was 56.4% lower than the Bush Fair average (97.5 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 6 offences recorded. The least common crime was Bicycle theft with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Public order ( 50.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Vehicle crime ( -25.0% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 9 (≈ 25.5 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 12.5% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -47.7% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Tilbury Mead (CM18 6JG), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Longfield, where police recorded 46 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Nicholls Field (31 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Harlow| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Tilbury Mead | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Spencers Croft | — |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Nicholls Field | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Nicholls Field | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Manor Hatch Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Manor Hatch Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Tilbury Mead | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Spencers Croft | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Spencers Croft | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Supermarket | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Spinning Wheel Mead | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Longfield | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Stile Croft | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Stile Croft | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Stile Croft | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Tilbury Mead | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Tilbury Mead | — |
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