Crime Statistics for Townsend, St Albans, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Townsend in September 2024. There were a total of 226 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 Townsend, 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	69
Anti Social Behaviour	39
Shoplifting	30
Public Order	21
Other Theft	14
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Other Crime	11
Drugs	7
Vehicle Crime	6
Robbery	5
Burglary	4
Bicycle Theft	4
Theft From The Person	4
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	226

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 Townsend. 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 Townsend

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bernards Heath (0.62 miles)	626
St Albans (0.88 miles)	388
Marshalswick (1.24 miles)	343
The Camp (1.75 miles)	264
Townsend	226
St Julians (1.86 miles)	99
New Greens (0.62 miles)	77
Childwick Green (1.24 miles)	54
Childwick Bury (1.39 miles)	8
Gorhambury (1.96 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Townsend?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bernards Heath	384
St Albans	106
Marshalswick	104
Townsend	69
The Camp	65
New Greens	35
Childwick Green	28
St Julians	22
Childwick Bury	1
Gorhambury	1

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

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 Townsend 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 Townsend compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Townsend and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Townsend is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Sopwell	63
2	Cunningham	62
3	Batchwood	60
4	Colney Heath	58
5	Redbourn	56
6	St Peters	55
7	Clarence	34
8	Verulam	32
9	Ashley	28
10	Marshalswick South	22
11	Marshalswick North	18

Which road in Townsend has the highest level of crime?

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