Crime Statistics for Hiz, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hiz in October 2024. There were a total of 57 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Hiz, 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	27
Other Theft	8
Anti Social Behaviour	7
Vehicle Crime	5
Public Order	3
Drugs	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Shoplifting	1
Other Crime	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	57

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 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
Hitchin (1.26 miles)	259
Walsworth (1.26 miles)	193
Oakfield (0.44 miles)	95
Hitchin Hill (1.05 miles)	91
Hiz	57
Titmore Green (1.53 miles)	38
St Ippollitts (0.81 miles)	26
Great Wymondley (0.81 miles)	21
Little Wymondley (1.06 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	112
Walsworth	66
Oakfield	35
Hitchin Hill	32
Hiz	27
Titmore Green	14
St Ippollitts	14
Great Wymondley	13
Little Wymondley	7
Gosmore	7

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 Newlands Lane.