Crime Statistics for Bernards Heath, St Albans, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bernards Heath in September 2024. There were a total of 1251 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 Bernards Heath, 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	384
Anti Social Behaviour	248
Shoplifting	120
Public Order	92
Criminal Damage Arson	84
Other Theft	72
Vehicle Crime	60
Burglary	44
Other Crime	43
Bicycle Theft	32
Drugs	24
Robbery	24
Theft From The Person	20
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	1251

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 Bernards Heath. 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 Bernards Heath

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bernards Heath	626
St Albans (0.62 miles)	388
Marshalswick (0.62 miles)	343
The Camp (1.39 miles)	264
Townsend (0.62 miles)	226
St Julians (1.96 miles)	99
New Greens (0.88 miles)	77
Childwick Green (1.39 miles)	54
Sandridge (1.75 miles)	53
Childwick Bury (1.75 miles)	8

Where are the most violent places near Bernards Heath?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Bernards Heath 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
Sandridge	21
Childwick Bury	1

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

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 Bernards Heath 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 Bernards Heath compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bernards Heath and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bernards Heath is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Sopwell	63
2	Cunningham	62
3	Batchwood	60
4	Colney Heath	58
5	St Peters	55
6	Clarence	34
7	Sandridge	33
8	Verulam	32
9	Ashley	28
10	Marshalswick South	22
11	Marshalswick North	18

Which road in Bernards Heath has the highest level of crime?

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