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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bower Heath in August 2024. There were a total of 72 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bower 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	20
Other Theft	15
Criminal Damage Arson	14
Anti Social Behaviour	13
Vehicle Crime	3
Public Order	3
Shoplifting	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	72

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Batford (0.62 miles)	90
Harpenden (1.39 miles)	77
Lea Valley (0.88 miles)	55
Bower Heath	52
Cold Harbour	52
Lea (Lee) (1.36 miles)	25
Marshalls Heath (1.39 miles)	15
Blackmore End (1.24 miles)	12
Ansells End (1.39 miles)	3
Porter’s End (1.39 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Bower Heath?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Harpenden	22
Bower Heath	20
Batford	18
Lea Valley	14
Cold Harbour	12
Lea (Lee)	3
Marshalls Heath	1
Blackmore End	1
Ansells End	1
Porter’s End	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Bower 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 Bower 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 Bower Heath compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Crawley	79
2	Farley	79
3	Caddington	47
4	Codicote	33
5	Sandridge	33
6	Harpenden West	30
7	Harpenden East	29
8	Wheathampstead	28
9	Harpenden North	20
10	Kimpton	12
11	Harpenden South	9

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

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