Total Crime Rate
2.7 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
2.7 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Weavers Close area has the lowest crime rate of 24 local areas in Bocking North , and the 2nd lowest crime rate of 483 local areas in Braintree .
This postcode forms a relatively safe pocket compared with the surrounding streets. Neighbouring areas record much higher crime levels, even though this postcode itself remains comparatively low-crime.
The overall crime rate in the area around Weavers Close (CM7 2WB) in the last 12 months was 2.7 per 1,000 residents and was 95.7% lower than the Bocking North average (61.7 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 1 offences recorded. The least common crime was Violence and sexual offences with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. Overall, crime levels by type were broadly flat compared to 2025, with no category showing a clear year-on-year rise or fall.
Violent crimes totalled 1 (≈ 2.7 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were flat ( 0.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -58.3% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Weavers Close (CM7 2WB), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Shopping Area, where police recorded 60 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near High Street (37 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Braintree| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Blyth'S Meadow | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Weavers Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Shopping Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Shopping Area | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Shopping Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Theatre/Concert Hall | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Theatre/Concert Hall | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Theatre/Concert Hall | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Theatre/Concert Hall | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Weavers Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Shopping Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Weavers Close | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | High Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Blyth'S Meadow | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | High Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Sports/Recreation Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Parking Area | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Spalding Close | Action to be taken by another organisation |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Shopping Area | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | High Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Shopping Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Great Square | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Bank Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Blyth'S Meadow | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Robbery | St Peter'S-In-The-Fields | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Swan Side | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Swan Side | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Swan Side | — |
| Apr 2026 | Robbery | Hills Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | St Peter'S-In-The-Fields | — |
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