Crime Statistics for South Mimms, Hertsmere, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Mimms in September 2024. There were a total of 28 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Other Theft, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime Category	Incidents
Other Theft	15
Anti Social Behaviour	8
Vehicle Crime	3
Other Crime	1
Violent Crime	1
All Crime	28

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 South Mimms. 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 South Mimms

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Potters Bar (1.86 miles)	245
Monken Hadley (2.78 miles)	146
Shenleybury (2.48 miles)	49
South Mimms	28
Shenley (1.96 miles)	24
Brookmans Park (2.24 miles)	21
Colney Heath (2.78 miles)	13
Bentley Heath (1.75 miles)	8
Bullen’s Green (2.56 miles)	6
Dancers Hill (1.39 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near South Mimms?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Potters Bar	85
Monken Hadley	36
Shenleybury	31
Shenley	15
Colney Heath	7
Brookmans Park	5
Bullen’s Green	5
Bentley Heath	2
South Mimms	1
Dancers Hill	0

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

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 South Mimms 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 South Mimms compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to South Mimms and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in South Mimms have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Borehamwood Cowley Hill.

#	Ward	Score
1	Borehamwood Cowley Hill	74
2	Borehamwood Brookmeadow	72
3	Potters Bar Oakmere	67
4	Borehamwood Hillside	62
5	Shenley	59
6	Welham Green and Hatfield South	57
7	High Barnet	54
8	Borehamwood Kenilworth	47
9	Bentley Heath & The Royds	47
10	Potters Bar Parkfield	46
11	Potters Bar Furzefield	33

Which road in South Mimms has the highest level of crime?

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