Crime Statistics for Bricket Wood, St Albans, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bricket Wood in September 2024. There were a total of 52 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 Bricket Wood, 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	25
Anti Social Behaviour	10
Other Crime	4
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Public Order	2
Other Theft	2
Theft From The Person	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Vehicle Crime	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	52

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 Bricket Wood. 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 Bricket Wood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Garston (2.24 miles)	348
Waterdale (1.24 miles)	114
St Julians (1.96 miles)	99
Chiswell Green (1.24 miles)	63
Aldenham (2.49 miles)	59
Bricket Wood	52
Park Street (1.39 miles)	44
Frogmore (1.39 miles)	35
Colney Street (1.24 miles)	17
Potters Crouch (2.24 miles)	8

Where are the most violent places near Bricket Wood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Garston	131
Waterdale	41
Bricket Wood	25
St Julians	22
Chiswell Green	15
Frogmore	14
Aldenham	12
Park Street	11
Colney Street	8
Potters Crouch	2

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

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 Bricket Wood 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 Bricket Wood compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Woodside	66
2	Leggatts	62
3	Stanborough	59
4	Meriden	57
5	London Colney	56
6	Redbourn	56
7	Callowland	55
8	Park Street	53
9	Leavesden	45
10	St Stephen	36
11	Aldenham West	27

Which road in Bricket Wood has the highest level of crime?

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