Crime Statistics for Hoddesdon, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hoddesdon in August 2024. There were a total of 295 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Hoddesdon, 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	88
Anti Social Behaviour	60
Shoplifting	36
Vehicle Crime	28
Other Theft	20
Burglary	20
Public Order	16
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Bicycle Theft	8
Robbery	4
Other Crime	3
All Crime	295

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 Hoddesdon. 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 Hoddesdon

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Keysers Estate (1.39 miles)	196
Rye Park (0.88 miles)	186
Hailey (1.39 miles)	181
Spitalbrook (0.62 miles)	155
Hoddesdon	147
Broxbourne (0.62 miles)	101
Lea Navigation (1.67 miles)	84
Lower Nazeing (2.24 miles)	46
Goose Green (0.88 miles)	14
Hertford Heath (1.96 miles)	7

Where are the most violent places near Hoddesdon?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Keysers Estate	104
Hoddesdon	88
Hailey	66
Rye Park	55
Lower Nazeing	46
Spitalbrook	40
Lea Navigation	39
Broxbourne	28
Goose Green	10
Hertford Heath	0

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

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 Hoddesdon 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 Hoddesdon compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Roydon	74
2	Wormley and Turnford	58
3	Waltham Abbey North East	58
4	Hoddesdon Town and Rye Park	49
5	Broxbourne and Hoddesdon South	49
6	Flamstead End	46
7	Hoddesdon North	42
8	Lower Nazeing	41
9	Goffs Oak	28
10	Great Amwell	26
11	Hertford Heath	15

Which road in Hoddesdon has the highest level of crime?

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