Crime Statistics for Chiswell Green, St Albans, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Chiswell Green in September 2024. There were a total of 63 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 Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	20
Violent Crime	15
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Vehicle Crime	4
Other Theft	4
Theft From The Person	4
Shoplifting	2
Other Crime	2
All Crime	63

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 Chiswell Green. 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 Chiswell Green

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

Location	Crime Incidents
St Albans (2.24 miles)	388
The Camp (2.24 miles)	264
Waterdale (1.75 miles)	114
St Julians (0.88 miles)	99
Chiswell Green	63
Bricket Wood (1.24 miles)	52
Park Street (0.62 miles)	44
Frogmore (1.39 miles)	35
Colney Street (1.75 miles)	17
Potters Crouch (1.39 miles)	8

Where are the most violent places near Chiswell Green?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
St Albans	106
The Camp	65
Waterdale	41
Bricket Wood	25
St Julians	22
Chiswell Green	15
Frogmore	14
Park Street	11
Colney Street	8
Potters Crouch	2

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

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 Chiswell Green 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 Chiswell Green compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Sopwell	63
2	Cunningham	62
3	Meriden	57
4	London Colney	56
5	Redbourn	56
6	St Peters	55
7	Park Street	53
8	Leavesden	45
9	St Stephen	36
10	Verulam	32
11	Aldenham West	27

Which road in Chiswell Green has the highest level of crime?

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