Crime Statistics for Handside, Welwyn Hatfield, Hertfordshire, 2024

Is Handside rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for October 2024. There were a total of 194 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Handside, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime58
Shoplifting39
Anti Social Behaviour31
Criminal Damage Arson12
Public Order12
Drugs11
Vehicle Crime10
Other Theft7
Burglary5
Robbery2
Other Crime2
Bicycle Theft2
Theft From The Person2
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime194

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Handside. 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 Handside

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Peartree (0.62 miles)423
Birchwood (1.96 miles)392
Sherrardspark (0.62 miles)339
Panshanger (1.39 miles)322
Haldens (1.39 miles)196
Handside194
Hall Grove (1.39 miles)134
Mill Green (1.96 miles)125
Danesbury (2.48 miles)34
The Frythe (1.39 miles)9

17.97%
of Hollybush residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Handside?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Sherrardspark168
Peartree144
Birchwood135
Panshanger85
Mill Green60
Handside58
Haldens52
Hall Grove49
Danesbury12
The Frythe5

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

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 Handside 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 Handside compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Handside and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Handside is ranked #3.

#WardScore
1Hatfield Central75
2Peartree65
3Hollybush62
4Hatfield South West61
5Hatfield East58
6Howlands58
7Handside40
8Haldens40
9Sherrards35
10Brookmans Park and Little Heath30
11Welwyn East20

Which road in Handside has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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