Crime Statistics for Cooper’s Green, St Albans, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cooper’s Green in September 2024. There were a total of 17 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	7
Vehicle Crime	3
Violent Crime	3
Robbery	1
Other Theft	1
Public Order	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
All Crime	17

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Cooper’s Green. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Cooper’s Green

We've taken the ten nearest places to Cooper’s Green and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Cooper’s Green has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Bernards Heath (2.55 miles)	626
St Albans (2.77 miles)	388
Marshalswick (1.96 miles)	343
Birchwood (1.86 miles)	313
The Camp (2.63 miles)	264
South Hatfield (2.63 miles)	123
Tyttenhanger (2.56 miles)	88
Sandridge (1.39 miles)	53
Cooper’s Green	17
Colney Heath (2.56 miles)	13

Where are the most violent places near Cooper’s Green?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Cooper’s Green and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Bernards Heath	384
Birchwood	115
St Albans	106
Marshalswick	104
The Camp	65
South Hatfield	52
Tyttenhanger	25
Sandridge	21
Colney Heath	7
Cooper’s Green	3

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Cooper’s Green?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Cooper’s Green to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Cooper’s Green compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cooper’s Green and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Cooper’s Green have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Hatfield Central.

#	Ward	Score
1	Hatfield Central	75
2	Hatfield South West	61
3	Hatfield East	58
4	Colney Heath	58
5	Welham Green and Hatfield South	57
6	Hatfield Villages	39
7	Clarence	34
8	Sandridge	33
9	Ashley	28
10	Marshalswick South	22
11	Marshalswick North	18

Which road in Cooper’s Green has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Cooper’s Green with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.