Crime Statistics for Childwick Bury, St Albans, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Childwick Bury in August 2024. There were a total of 3 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Other Theft, followed by Public Order.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Other Theft1
Public Order1
Vehicle Crime1
All Crime3

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 Childwick Bury. 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 Childwick Bury

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Bernards Heath (1.75 miles)626
Marshalswick (2.24 miles)439
Townsend (1.39 miles)258
New Greens (0.88 miles)159
Harpenden Common (1.86 miles)50
Redbourn (2.24 miles)35
Childwick Green (0.62 miles)30
Ayres End (1.75 miles)6
Childwick Bury3
Hatching Green (1.24 miles)3

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of residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Childwick Bury?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Bernards Heath384
Marshalswick98
Townsend78
New Greens62
Harpenden Common15
Childwick Green13
Redbourn10
Hatching Green2
Ayres End1
Childwick Bury0

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

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 Childwick Bury 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 Childwick Bury compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Childwick Bury and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Childwick Bury have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Sopwell.

#WardScore
1Sopwell63
2Batchwood60
3St Peters55
4Clarence34
5Sandridge33
6Verulam32
7Harpenden West30
8Harpenden East29
9Wheathampstead28
10Marshalswick South22
11Harpenden South9

Which road in Childwick Bury has the highest level of crime?

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

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