Local police force: Essex
Crime figures for CRDP area Basildon.
Population: 167,000
Number of households: 71,000

Recorded crime for six key offences

	2005-06	2006-07	% Change
Violence against the person	2,162	2,403	11.15
Sexual offences	182	139	-23.63
Robbery	248	252	1.61
Burglary of a dwelling	823	1,072	30.26
Theft of a vehicle	1,107	873	-21.14
Theft from a vehicle	2,146	2,027	-5.55

Reported crime per 1,000 population 2006-07

	Local	UK	Difference
Violence against the person	14.39	19.28	-4.89
Sexual offences	0.83	1.06	-0.23
Robbery	1.51	1.86	-0.35
Burglary of a dwelling	6.42	5.47	0.95
Theft of a vehicle	5.23	3.61	1.62
Theft from a vehicle	12.14	9.34	2.8

Key

Graph: Red bar is local crime, black bar is national crime.

Crime & Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP): a partnership of police, local councils and other local agencies and organisations tackling crime and disorder in your local area.

The figures shown are a combination of police recorded crime figures and data collected by the British Crime Survey (BCS). All reports of incidents, whether from victims, witnesses or third parties, and whether crime-related or not, result in the registration of an incident report by the police. An incident is recorded as a crime if, on the balance of probability, the circumstances as reported amount to a crime defined by law and there is no credible evidence to the contrary.

Data from the Home Office © Crown Copyright 2007