Crime Statistics for Symonds Green, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Symonds Green in September 2024. There were a total of 128 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Symonds Green, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime53
Anti Social Behaviour21
Public Order13
Shoplifting9
Other Theft9
Criminal Damage Arson7
Vehicle Crime4
Burglary4
Other Crime2
Robbery2
Possession Of Weapons2
Bicycle Theft1
Theft From The Person1
All Crime128

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 Symonds 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 Symonds Green

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Bedwell (1.39 miles)371
Pin Green (1.24 miles)321
St Nicholas (1.96 miles)223
Graveley (1.39 miles)136
Symonds Green128
Todd’s Green (0.62 miles)105
Fishers Green (0.62 miles)105
Titmore Green (0.88 miles)31
Norton Green (1.24 miles)21
Little Wymondley (1.39 miles)18

15.07%
of Symonds Green residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Symonds Green?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Pin Green207
Bedwell138
St Nicholas76
Graveley65
Symonds Green53
Todd’s Green50
Fishers Green50
Titmore Green8
Norton Green7
Little Wymondley4

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Symonds 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 Symonds 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 Symonds Green compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Bedwell87
2Shephall77
3Old Town74
4Pin Green70
5St Nicholas63
6Martins Wood58
7Roebuck54
8Woodfield52
9Chells45
10Symonds Green30
11Chesfield19

Which road in Symonds Green has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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