Crime Statistics for Sherrardspark, Welwyn Hatfield, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sherrardspark in September 2024. There were a total of 248 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Sherrardspark, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	96
Shoplifting	37
Anti Social Behaviour	28
Vehicle Crime	24
Other Theft	18
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Public Order	8
Robbery	6
Drugs	6
Other Crime	5
Bicycle Theft	4
Theft From The Person	2
Burglary	2
All Crime	248

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 Sherrardspark. 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 Sherrardspark

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Panshanger (1.24 miles)	385
Haldens (0.88 miles)	322
Peartree (0.88 miles)	252
Sherrardspark	225
Handside (0.62 miles)	179
Hall Grove (1.75 miles)	122
Danesbury (1.86 miles)	28
Mimram (2.55 miles)	25
The Frythe (0.88 miles)	11
Harmer Green (2.24 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Sherrardspark?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Haldens	220
Panshanger	177
Sherrardspark	96
Peartree	89
Handside	64
Hall Grove	46
Danesbury	14
Mimram	14
The Frythe	6
Harmer Green	1

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Sherrardspark?

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 Sherrardspark 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 Sherrardspark compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Sherrardspark and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Sherrardspark is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Hatfield Central	75
2	Peartree	65
3	Hollybush	62
4	Hatfield East	58
5	Howlands	58
6	Hertford Rural South	43
7	Panshanger	40
8	Handside	40
9	Haldens	40
10	Sherrards	35
11	Welwyn East	20

Which road in Sherrardspark has the highest level of crime?

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