Crime Statistics for Harpenden Common, St Albans, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Harpenden Common in October 2024. There were a total of 116 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	40
Violent Crime	21
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Anti Social Behaviour	10
Vehicle Crime	8
Other Theft	8
Other Crime	6
Public Order	2
Bicycle Theft	2
Burglary	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Drugs	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	116

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 Harpenden Common. 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 Harpenden Common

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Harpenden Common	119
Batford (1.39 miles)	100
Harpenden (0.62 miles)	84
Redbourn (1.96 miles)	49
Lea Valley (1.75 miles)	47
Lea (Lee) (1.86 miles)	29
Ayres End (1.39 miles)	17
Hatching Green (0.62 miles)	16
Amwell (1.86 miles)	16
Childwick Bury (1.86 miles)	9

Where are the most violent places near Harpenden Common?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Harpenden Common	21
Hatching Green	14
Batford	12
Redbourn	12
Lea Valley	10
Harpenden	9
Ayres End	7
Lea (Lee)	6
Amwell	3
Childwick Bury	3

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

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 Harpenden Common 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 Harpenden Common compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Harpenden Common and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Harpenden Common is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Batchwood	60
2	Watling	60
3	Clarence	34
4	Sandridge	33
5	Harpenden West	30
6	Harpenden East	29
7	Wheathampstead	28
8	Marshalswick South	22
9	Harpenden North	20
10	Kimpton	12
11	Harpenden South	9

Which road in Harpenden Common has the highest level of crime?

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