Crime Statistics for Broad Colney, Hertsmere, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Broad Colney in August 2024. There were a total of 120 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 Broad Colney, 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	49
Anti Social Behaviour	17
Other Theft	15
Criminal Damage Arson	9
Vehicle Crime	9
Shoplifting	8
Public Order	5
Bicycle Theft	2
Robbery	2
Burglary	2
Other Crime	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	120

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 Broad Colney. 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 Broad Colney

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

Location	Crime Incidents
The Camp (1.96 miles)	612
St Julians (2.24 miles)	120
Broad Colney	120
Tyttenhanger (1.39 miles)	106
London Colney (0.62 miles)	99
Shenleybury (1.39 miles)	97
Park Street (1.96 miles)	48
Colney Heath (2.24 miles)	18
Frogmore (1.24 miles)	14
Colney Street (1.39 miles)	7

Where are the most violent places near Broad Colney?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
The Camp	100
Shenleybury	65
Broad Colney	49
St Julians	42
London Colney	24
Tyttenhanger	23
Park Street	15
Frogmore	6
Colney Heath	4
Colney Street	0

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

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 Broad Colney 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 Broad Colney compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Sopwell	63
2	Cunningham	62
3	Shenley	59
4	Colney Heath	58
5	London Colney	56
6	Redbourn	56
7	St Peters	55
8	Park Street	53
9	St Stephen	36
10	Ashley	28
11	Aldenham West	27

Which road in Broad Colney has the highest level of crime?

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