Crime Statistics for Brookmans Park, Welwyn Hatfield, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Brookmans Park in September 2024. There were a total of 21 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour7
Violent Crime5
Other Theft4
Other Crime2
Criminal Damage Arson1
Bicycle Theft1
Burglary1
All Crime21

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 Brookmans Park. 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 Brookmans Park

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

LocationCrime Incidents
South Hatfield (1.75 miles)159
Marshmoor (1.39 miles)158
Potters Bar (1.96 miles)157
South Mimms (2.24 miles)49
Bell Bar (0.88 miles)22
Brookmans Park21
Colney Heath (2.55 miles)13
Bentley Heath (3.11 miles)8
Bullen’s Green (1.96 miles)6
Essendon (3.1 miles)2

22%
of Potters Bar Parkfield residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Brookmans Park?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Marshmoor67
South Hatfield51
Potters Bar36
Bell Bar7
Colney Heath7
South Mimms6
Brookmans Park5
Bullen’s Green5
Bentley Heath2
Essendon1

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

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 Brookmans Park 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 Brookmans Park compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Brookmans Park and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Brookmans Park is ranked #8.

#WardScore
1Hatfield Central75
2Potters Bar Oakmere67
3Hatfield South West61
4Shenley59
5Hatfield East58
6Welham Green and Hatfield South57
7Bentley Heath & The Royds47
8Potters Bar Parkfield46
9Hatfield Villages39
10Potters Bar Furzefield33
11Brookmans Park and Little Heath30

Which road in Brookmans Park has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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