Crime Statistics for Batford, St Albans, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Batford in October 2024. There were a total of 115 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	25
Anti Social Behaviour	24
Vehicle Crime	17
Violent Crime	12
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Other Theft	9
Public Order	5
Burglary	5
Other Crime	3
Drugs	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Theft From The Person	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	115

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Batford. 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 Batford

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Batford	100
Harpenden (0.88 miles)	84
Cold Harbour (0.62 miles)	55
The Folly (1.39 miles)	52
Lea Valley (0.62 miles)	47
Bower Heath (0.62 miles)	33
Lea (Lee) (1.04 miles)	29
Leasey Bridge (1.39 miles)	27
Marshalls Heath (1.24 miles)	12
Blackmore End (1.39 miles)	7

Where are the most violent places near Batford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Batford	12
Lea Valley	10
Harpenden	9
The Folly	9
Cold Harbour	7
Lea (Lee)	6
Leasey Bridge	6
Bower Heath	5
Marshalls Heath	4
Blackmore End	3

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

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 Batford 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 Batford compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Batford and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Batford is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Crawley	79
2	Batchwood	60
3	Codicote	33
4	Sandridge	33
5	Harpenden West	30
6	Harpenden East	29
7	Wheathampstead	28
8	Marshalswick South	22
9	Harpenden North	20
10	Kimpton	12
11	Harpenden South	9

Which road in Batford has the highest level of crime?

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