Crime Statistics for Epping Green, Welwyn Hatfield, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Epping Green in August 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 Other Theft, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Other Theft	1
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	2

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 Epping 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 Epping Green

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Cuffley (1.96 miles)	50
Tolmers (1.96 miles)	25
Newgate Street (1.39 miles)	15
Broadgreen Wood (2.24 miles)	10
Tylers Causeway (0.62 miles)	6
Little Berkamstead (1.24 miles)	4
Bayford (1.39 miles)	3
Essendon (1.75 miles)	2
Brickendon (1.96 miles)	2
Epping Green	2

Where are the most violent places near Epping Green?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Cuffley	16
Tolmers	4
Little Berkamstead	3
Newgate Street	2
Essendon	1
Broadgreen Wood	0
Tylers Causeway	0
Bayford	0
Brickendon	0
Epping Green	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Epping 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 Epping 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 Epping Green compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Potters Bar Oakmere	67
2	Rosedale and Bury Green	66
3	Hatfield East	58
4	Welham Green and Hatfield South	57
5	Hertford Sele	54
6	Potters Bar Parkfield	46
7	Flamstead End	46
8	Brookmans Park and Little Heath	30
9	Goffs Oak	28
10	Northaw and Cuffley	27
11	Hertford Heath	15

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

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