Craig Angus · Photo: Steve Knight · CC BY 4.0Silver End stands out for drugs: 3.2 times the rate of a typical town its size
Violence recorded locally climbed 8% in a year. It has more violent crime than 73% of UK towns, and more burglary, vehicle crime and damage than 62%. Taking everything together, Silver End scores C (#50 of 81 in Essex): more crime per resident than 71% of UK towns, measured on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area between September 2023 and August 2026. Police counts work out at 32.2 violent and sexual offences and 11.2 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents annually.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Silver End
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 8% more violent crime per resident in Silver End than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage fell 13% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 539 UK towns of 3,000 to 5,000 people, Silver End has the 416th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Sturry, Windermere and Shortstown, higher than Preesall and Knott End-on-Sea, Gobowen and Ratby. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Silver End’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 510 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Silver End against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Silver End runs highest on drugs (3.3 per 1,000 against 1), other theft (5.1 per 1,000 against 3.2) and violence & sexual offences (35 per 1,000 against 22.4).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 137 | 35 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 36 | 9.2 | 8.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 21 | 5.4 | 4.5 |
| Other theft | not graded | 20 | 5.1 | 3.2 |
| Public order | not graded | 19 | 4.9 | 3.6 |
| Drugs | not graded | 13 | 3.3 | 1 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 11 | 2.8 | 1.8 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 10 | 2.6 | 2 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 9 | 2.3 | 1.9 |
| Other crime | not graded | 7 | 1.8 | 1.5 |
| Robbery | Violent | 2 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 1 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0.3 | 0 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0.4 |
“Violent” is police.uk’s violence and sexual offences (which includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury), robbery and possession of weapons. Anti-social behaviour isn’t a crime category; shoplifting and other theft happen mostly in shops and town centres rather than to residents, so neither counts in the grade.
September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 residents. The tick on each bar is the typical (median) town among UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
How Silver End’s neighbourhoods rank in England
0% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 0% in the highest-crime 20%. The crime domain scores the risk of violence, burglary, theft and criminal damage where people live, so it can read differently from the town-wide rate, which counts crimes where they happened.
Silver End’s residents by the crime decile of their neighbourhood (LSOA, about 1,500 people) in the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (crime domain), where 1 is the highest-crime 10% of England’s neighbourhoods and 10 the lowest.
Set against 539 towns its size, Silver End is 416th
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bailrigg Lancashire | 4,788 | 4.7 | 2.5 | 7.9 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 49 | Doddinghurst Essex | 4,067 | 8.9 | 8.9 | 1.6 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 131 | West Bergholt Essex | 3,175 | 18.6 | 5.6 | 10.3 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 194 | Mayland Essex | 3,740 | 21.4 | 6.2 | 2.4 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 219 | Frinton-on-Sea Essex | 4,865 | 19.6 | 9 | 20.1 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 413 | Preesall and Knott End-on-Sea Lancashire | 4,679 | 33.3 | 9.7 | 3.4 | C |
| 414 | Gobowen Shropshire | 3,046 | 31.9 | 11.4 | 9 | C |
| 415 | Ratby Leicestershire | 4,262 | 29.1 | 14.2 | 8.9 | C |
| 416 | Silver End Essex | 3,913 | 32.2 | 11.2 | 5.4 | C |
| 417 | Menai Bridge Gwynedd | 3,045 | 31.5 | 11.9 | 7.9 | C |
| 418 | Tibshelf Derbyshire | 4,352 | 33.8 | 9.7 | 6.4 | C |
| 419 | Newton and Blackwell Derbyshire | 3,053 | 29.3 | 14.4 | 7.6 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 539 | Eastchurch Kent | 3,381 | 132 | 13.9 | 3.5 | D− |
Safety letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; the order here is context only.
Graded crime per 1,000 residents a year, September 2023 to August 2026, counting from the least: towns ranked near Silver End, and others in Essex.
Police in Silver End identify a suspect less often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 76% of Silver End’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 12% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (69% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 2% of violent and 0% of household crimes reached court.
The latest outcome police.uk shows for each crime recorded in the first of the three years (September 2023 to August 2024), so most cases have closed. 156 crimes.
How crime in Silver End has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling twelve-month rate, per 1,000 residents a year (longer windows for smaller places, where a few crimes swing a month). In the 12 months to August 2026 against the 12 before: violent +8% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -13% (towns its size -1%).
Crime in Silver End per 1,000 residents
A crime isn’t a victim: one person can report several, and crimes in a town centre often involve visitors rather than residents.
And about 10 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 8 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
One person died in collisions on Silver End’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 13 collisions with injuries inside Silver End in five years, in which one person died. 2 people were killed or seriously injured: 1 on foot and 0 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, so with numbers this small a single collision changes the picture; Silver End’s one death is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Silver End’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 3 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Silver End had 2.
Casualties are counted where the collision happened, not where people lived: a main road through town adds through-traffic, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Seriously injured uses the Department for Transport’s adjusted figures, which even out the police forces’ different ways of recording injuries. There’s no national rate here: more than half of road deaths in England and Wales (58%) happen outside every town’s built-up area. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), 2021–2025.
Collisions police recorded inside Silver End’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Silver End
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silver End | 3,913 | 32.2 | 11.2 | C |
| Tye Green | 1,415 | 25.7 | 8 | B− |
| Black Notley | 1,932 | 19.7 | 6.6 | B+ |
| Coggeshall | 3,767 | 24.7 | 9.4 | B− |
| Witham | 27,395 | 37.9 | 13.6 | C− |
| Braintree | 43,179 | 39.8 | 12.4 | C− |
| Kelvedon and Feering | 4,771 | 24.6 | 10.8 | C+ |
| Great Notley | 7,659 | 13.8 | 6.3 | A− |
Silver End records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Witham and Braintree record more. Tye Green, 1.7 miles away, records 25.7 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Silver End’s 32.2.
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Where crimes happen, not where victims live. police.uk places each crime at a point near where it happened. Town centres with shops, stations, a hospital and nightlife record more crime per resident, and residents of nearby villages who come in to shop or go out are part of that count.
- Bigger towns record more per resident. Across UK towns, recorded crime per resident rises steeply with size, more than in the U.S., so a city’s grade sits low against the whole UK. The “towns its size” figures show where Silver End sits among towns like it; they are context and don’t change the grade.
- Points are approximate. police.uk moves each point to the nearest of a set of anonymous map points, so crimes near the edge of the built-up area can fall either side of it.
Questions about safety in Silver End
Is Silver End safe?
Police recorded 32.2 violent and sexual offences and 11.2 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Silver End’s built-up area). That earns a C for safety: less crime per resident than 29% of UK towns. Among 539 UK towns of 3,000 to 5,000 people, Silver End is 416th from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Silver End?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 8%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 13%, shoplifting and theft rose 83% and anti-social behaviour rose 100%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Silver End?
Violence & sexual offences: 137 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (21) and other theft (20), with 36 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Silver End compare with Braintree?
Braintree records 39.8 violent and sexual offences and 12.4 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Silver End’s 32.2 and 11.2, over the same three years.
Sources: data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · MHCLG English Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain by LSOA (residents from ONS Census 2021) · Department for Transport road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions 2021–2025, points inside the built-up-area boundary · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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