Crime Statistics for Boxmoor, Dacorum, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Boxmoor in October 2024. There were a total of 107 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 Boxmoor, 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	37
Anti Social Behaviour	18
Criminal Damage Arson	13
Burglary	10
Vehicle Crime	7
Other Theft	7
Shoplifting	7
Bicycle Theft	2
Drugs	2
Theft From The Person	1
Other Crime	1
Public Order	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	107

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 Boxmoor. 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 Boxmoor

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hemel Hempstead (1.39 miles)	628
Hammerfield (0.62 miles)	313
Bennetts End (1.39 miles)	263
Apsley (0.88 miles)	236
Two Waters (0.88 miles)	118
Boxmoor	107
Warners End (0.88 miles)	88
Chaulden (0.62 miles)	38
Fields End (1.39 miles)	16
Bourne End (1.24 miles)	11

Where are the most violent places near Boxmoor?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hemel Hempstead	256
Apsley	164
Bennetts End	107
Hammerfield	82
Two Waters	41
Boxmoor	37
Warners End	33
Chaulden	12
Fields End	6
Bourne End	4

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

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 Boxmoor 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 Boxmoor compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Boxmoor and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Boxmoor is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Hemel Hempstead Town	73
2	Highfield	70
3	Boxmoor	62
4	Bennetts End	58
5	Apsley and Corner Hall	52
6	Kings Langley	51
7	Nash Mills	50
8	Gadebridge	43
9	Chaulden and Warners End	43
10	Bovingdon, Flaunden and Chipperfield	35
11	Berkhamsted East	32

Which road in Boxmoor has the highest level of crime?

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