Crime Statistics for Broadwater, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Broadwater in October 2024. There were a total of 177 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 Broadwater, 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	58
Anti Social Behaviour	37
Shoplifting	34
Criminal Damage Arson	9
Other Theft	9
Other Crime	7
Vehicle Crime	6
Public Order	5
Drugs	4
Burglary	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
Bicycle Theft	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	177

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 Broadwater. 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 Broadwater

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bedwell (1.39 miles)	661
Shephall (0.62 miles)	262
Poplars (0.88 miles)	184
Broadwater	177
Chells (1.96 miles)	165
Aston End (1.75 miles)	100
Aston (1.24 miles)	86
Knebworth (1.24 miles)	67
Norton Green (1.96 miles)	36
Hook’s Cross (1.75 miles)	8

Where are the most violent places near Broadwater?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bedwell	232
Shephall	88
Chells	74
Poplars	66
Broadwater	58
Aston End	36
Aston	31
Knebworth	22
Norton Green	7
Hook’s Cross	2

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

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 Broadwater 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 Broadwater compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Broadwater and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Broadwater is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bedwell	87
2	Shephall	77
3	Old Town	74
4	Pin Green	70
5	Martins Wood	58
6	Roebuck	54
7	Chells	45
8	Bandley Hill	44
9	Longmeadow	40
10	Manor	28
11	Welwyn West	26

Which road in Broadwater has the highest level of crime?

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