Crime Statistics for Cradle End, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cradle End in September 2024. There were a total of 2 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 Cradle End, 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	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
All Crime	2

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 Cradle End. 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 Cradle End

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bishop’s Stortford (2.48 miles)	172
Hockerill (2.55 miles)	149
Little Hadham (0.88 miles)	3
Green Tye (1.96 miles)	3
Broken Green (2.55 miles)	2
Cradle End	2
Walnuttree Green (1.24 miles)	1
Hadham Ford (1.39 miles)	1
Bromley (2.48 miles)	1
Albury (2.24 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Cradle End?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bishop’s Stortford	56
Hockerill	49
Little Hadham	2
Broken Green	2
Cradle End	1
Hadham Ford	1
Bromley	1
Green Tye	0
Walnuttree Green	0
Albury	0

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

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 Cradle End 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 Cradle End compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cradle End and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Cradle End is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bishop's Stortford Meads	46
2	Bishop's Stortford Central	37
3	Sawbridgeworth	34
4	Braughing	32
5	Puckeridge	30
6	Bishop's Stortford All Saints	28
7	Little Hadham	27
8	Stansted North	25
9	Bishop's Stortford Silverleys	20
10	Bishop's Stortford South	15

Which road in Cradle End has the highest level of crime?

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