Crime Statistics for Hiz, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hiz in September 2024. There were a total of 75 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	21
Violent Crime	17
Anti Social Behaviour	11
Vehicle Crime	11
Other Theft	6
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Public Order	2
Theft From The Person	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	75

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Walsworth (1.26 miles)	201
Hitchin (1.26 miles)	184
Oakfield (0.44 miles)	120
Hitchin Hill (1.05 miles)	114
Hiz	75
St Ippollitts (0.81 miles)	41
Titmore Green (1.53 miles)	31
Little Wymondley (1.06 miles)	18
Great Wymondley (0.81 miles)	14
Gosmore (1.25 miles)	11

Where are the most violent places near Hiz?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hitchin	93
Walsworth	69
Oakfield	22
Hitchin Hill	19
Hiz	17
Titmore Green	8
Great Wymondley	6
Little Wymondley	4
Gosmore	4
St Ippollitts	3

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

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 Hiz 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 Hiz compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hiz and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hiz is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Old Town	74
2	Hitchin Oughton	64
3	Woodfield	52
4	Letchworth South West	43
5	Cadwell	40
6	Hitchin Bearton	39
7	Hitchin Priory	34
8	Symonds Green	30
9	Hitchin Highbury	29
10	Hitchin Walsworth	20
11	Chesfield	19

Which road in Hiz has the highest level of crime?

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