Crime Statistics for Hammerfield, Dacorum, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hammerfield in August 2024. There were a total of 270 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	77
Violent Crime	71
Shoplifting	37
Public Order	21
Vehicle Crime	19
Criminal Damage Arson	13
Other Theft	9
Burglary	8
Other Crime	7
Possession Of Weapons	2
Drugs	2
Robbery	2
Theft From The Person	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	270

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 Hammerfield. 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 Hammerfield

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Highfield (1.39 miles)	402
Hemel Hempstead (1.24 miles)	377
Hammerfield	270
Warners End (0.62 miles)	149
Two Waters (1.39 miles)	128
Boxmoor (0.62 miles)	103
Apsley (1.39 miles)	96
Chaulden (0.88 miles)	49
Bourne End (1.39 miles)	28
Fields End (1.24 miles)	28

Where are the most violent places near Hammerfield?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hemel Hempstead	203
Highfield	133
Hammerfield	71
Warners End	37
Two Waters	32
Boxmoor	27
Apsley	26
Chaulden	12
Bourne End	7
Fields End	5

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

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 Hammerfield 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 Hammerfield compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Hemel Hempstead Town	73
2	Highfield	70
3	Grovehill	70
4	Adeyfield West	66
5	Boxmoor	62
6	Bennetts End	58
7	Apsley and Corner Hall	52
8	Gadebridge	43
9	Chaulden and Warners End	43
10	Bovingdon, Flaunden and Chipperfield	35
11	Berkhamsted East	32

Which road in Hammerfield has the highest level of crime?

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