Crime Statistics for High Cross, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for High Cross in August 2024. There were a total of 12 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Other Theft, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Other Theft	4
Violent Crime	3
Vehicle Crime	2
Public Order	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
All Crime	12

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 High Cross. 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 High Cross

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ware (2.48 miles)	122
Youngsbury (0.62 miles)	20
Cold Christmas (1.75 miles)	13
High Cross	12
Thundridge (0.88 miles)	10
Helham Green (2.63 miles)	6
Colliers End (1.39 miles)	6
Tonwell (1.96 miles)	3
Babbs Green (2.24 miles)	3
Bakers End (2.24 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near High Cross?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ware	67
Youngsbury	6
Cold Christmas	4
High Cross	3
Thundridge	2
Helham Green	2
Tonwell	2
Babbs Green	2
Bakers End	2
Colliers End	1

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

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 High Cross 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 High Cross compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to High Cross and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.High Cross is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Hertford Castle	47
2	Hertford Kingsmead	47
3	Ware Christchurch	37
4	Thundridge & Standon	36
5	Watton-at-Stone	34
6	Hertford Bengeo	33
7	Ware Trinity	33
8	Ware Chadwell	31
9	Puckeridge	30
10	Mundens and Cottered	27
11	Ware St Mary's	19

Which road in High Cross has the highest level of crime?

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